Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

France, Anatole

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leo Rosten

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Ken Hakuta

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Asnas, Max

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

Spader, James

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

20.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

21.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Alexander, Scott

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Williams, Les

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

Austen, Jane

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

Jane Austen

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

Mike Tatum

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sophocles

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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 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.

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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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

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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