Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

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.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Edith Wharton

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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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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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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

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

Jackie Mason

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Egan, Sir John

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Dickens, Charles

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

40.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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.

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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

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

Collier, Robert

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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