Motivational Quotes

Money

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Money

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Seneca

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Bumper Sticker

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Milligan, Spike

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Barrymore, John

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George