Motivational Quotes

Money

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Money

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Clark, Frank A.

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.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Spader, James

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

21.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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 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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Evan Esar

31.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Ovid

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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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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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Williams, Tennessee

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Wilson, Earl