Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Lennon, John

11.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Groucho Marx

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

Evan Esar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Seneca

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

Fielding, Henry

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bodie, Walford

43.

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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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

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

Lemmon, Jack

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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