Motivational Quotes

Money

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Money

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

Chanel, Coco

17.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

30.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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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

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward