Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Witkin, Georgia

Best Quotes about Money

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

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.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

France, Anatole

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Egan, Sir John

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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 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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

32.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Leo Rosten

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Robert W. Sarnoff