Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Money

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.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

10.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

11.

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

Sir Thomas More

12.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

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

Kin Hubbard

14.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

15.

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

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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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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

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

19.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

22.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

23.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

25.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

26.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

28.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

30.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

33.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

34.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Earle, Bill

36.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

38.

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Bodie, Walford

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Sophocles

43.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

44.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

45.

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

Ruskin, John

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

48.

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