Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Henry Fielding

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Twain, Mark

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 the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

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

Horace

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Fulghum, Robert

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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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 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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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Williams, Les

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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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 is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry