Quotes about money

"Money is flat and meant to be piled up."

Proverb, Scottish on money   

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

Proverb, Yiddish on money   

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

Quant, Mary on money   

"Money does not change men, it only unmasks them."

Riccoboni, Mme. on money   

"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 on money   

"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."

Rockefeller, John D. on money   

"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. on money   

"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 on money   

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

Rohn, Jim on money
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"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

Rohn, Jim on money   

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

Rolland, Romain on money   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on money
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"A fool and her money are soon courted."

Rowland, Helen on money   

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

Ruskin, John on money   

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

Sanders, Col. Harland on money   

"Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on money   

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"You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem."

Schuller, Robert H. on money   

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

Seneca on money   

"A great fortune is a great slavery."

Seneca on money   

"A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

Shakespeare, William on money
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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

Shaw, George Bernard on money   

"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis."

Shaw, George Bernard on money   

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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 on money   

"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 on money   

"All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on money   

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

Spader, James on money   

"Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on money   

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

Starr, Roger on money   

"Money is always there but the pockets change."

Stein, Gertrude on money   

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on money   

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

Swift, Jonathan on money   

"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."

Tertullian on money
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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 on money   

"The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward."

Thoreau, Henry David on money   

"The only wealth is life."

Thoreau, Henry David on money
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"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."

Thoreau, Henry David on money   

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

Traub, Marvin on money   

"The buck stops here."

Truman, Harry S on money   

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

Trump, Donald on money   

"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

Tucker, Sophie on money