Motivational Quotes

Money

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Money

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

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

Austen, Jane

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

Propertius, Sextus

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 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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Jane Austen

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Evan Esar

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Ruskin, John

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Mike Tatum

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert