Motivational Quotes

Money

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

- Sir Thomas More

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Evan Esar

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Orben, Robert

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

Jane Austen

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Earle, Bill

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Asnas, Max

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jonathan Swift

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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

Buffett, Warren

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Henry Fielding

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Leo Rosten

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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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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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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Seneca