Motivational Quotes

Money

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Money

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

10.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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

17.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

18.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

19.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

20.

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.

21.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Egan, Sir John

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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 world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Plato

36.

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

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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

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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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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

41.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Bible

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Fields, W. C.

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Asnas, Max

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