Motivational Quotes

Money

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Money

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Themistocles

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

Groucho Marx

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.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Jonathan Swift

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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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.

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

Ney, Richard

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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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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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

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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

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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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Diderot, Denis

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buffett, Warren

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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.