Motivational Quotes

Money

Money often costs too much.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

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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

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sophocles

11.

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

Spader, James

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Wilson, Earl

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

21.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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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

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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

28.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Youngman, Henny

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Ruskin, John

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Orben, Robert

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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.