Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Henry Fielding

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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.

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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 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.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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 covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sophocles

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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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

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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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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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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Plutarch

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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

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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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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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