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

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

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Bodie, Walford

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

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

Vaughan, Bill

11.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Plutarch

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Spader, James

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Henry Fielding

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

40.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Horace

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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

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Lennon, John

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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