Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Money

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

Earle, Bill

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Donald Trump

10.

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

Lemmon, Jack

11.

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.

12.

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

Buffett, Warren

13.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

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

Burgess, Anthony

15.

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

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

18.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

19.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

20.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

21.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

23.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

28.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

29.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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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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.

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

34.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

35.

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

Adams, Joey

36.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

37.

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

38.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

39.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

40.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

43.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

44.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

45.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

46.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

47.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

48.

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

49.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon