Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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Best Quotes about Money

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

Mike Tatum

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

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Plato

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Henry Fielding

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Milligan, Spike

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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

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Seneca

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Plutarch

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Karbo, Joe

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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

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

33.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Witkin, Georgia

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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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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

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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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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.