Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Plutarch

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

Branson, Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Groucho Marx

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Williams, Les

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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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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Collier, Robert

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Sophocles

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Blotnick, Srully

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Earle, Bill

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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