Motivational Quotes

Money

The only wealth is life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Jackie Mason

10.

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

Lucian

11.

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

Austen, Jane

12.

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

13.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

15.

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

Starr, Roger

17.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

18.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

19.

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

Jane Austen

20.

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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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

23.

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

Lynn Johnston

24.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

25.

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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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

28.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

29.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

33.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

34.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

37.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

38.

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

39.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

40.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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

Quant, Mary

42.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

Spader, James

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Jonathan Swift

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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 most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard