Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Money

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

Edith Wharton

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Davenport, Rita

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Bumper Sticker

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Bodie, Walford

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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