Motivational Quotes

Money

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Witkin, Georgia

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

11.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Orben, Robert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

21.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

23.

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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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Starr, Roger

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

32.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

33.

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

Asnas, Max

34.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

35.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

39.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

40.

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

Evan Esar

41.

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

Mike Tatum

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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

43.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra