Motivational Quotes

Money

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

- Bird, Larry

Best Quotes about Money

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.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Wilson, Earl

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Adams, Joey

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Sophocles

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

Bowen, Ezra

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Collier, Robert

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Ruskin, John

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Monroe, Marilyn