Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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

Horace

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.

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

12.

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

Asnas, Max

13.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

14.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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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

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

18.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

19.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

24.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

35.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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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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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Sir Thomas More

46.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.