Motivational Quotes

Money

The only wealth is life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Ken Hakuta

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Sophocles

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Rebecca Johnson

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Brown, Les

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Spader, James

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

Jane Austen

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

Evan Esar

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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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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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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston