Motivational Quotes

Money

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Money

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

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

Collier, Robert

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

14.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

15.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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

17.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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

19.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

20.

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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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

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.

28.

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

Milligan, Spike

29.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

30.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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

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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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

36.

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

37.

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

Carson, Johnny

38.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

39.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

40.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Edith Wharton

44.

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

Witkin, Georgia

45.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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

Ruskin, John

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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