Motivational Quotes

Money

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Money

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Bodie, Walford

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

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

12.

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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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

Barrymore, John

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

28.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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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

31.

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

Mike Tatum

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

Earle, Bill

33.

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

Ken Hakuta

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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

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Jonathan Swift

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

43.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Ruskin, John