Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sir Thomas More

Best Quotes about Money

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

Rebecca Johnson

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Juvenal

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

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Branson, Richard

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Seneca

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

24.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Barrymore, John

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Austen, Jane

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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

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Ruskin, John

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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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

42.

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

Groucho Marx

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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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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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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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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.

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin