Motivational Quotes

Money

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

- Moffatt, James

Best Quotes about Money

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.