Motivational Quotes

Money

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Money

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

10.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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

12.

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

13.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

14.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

15.

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

Bodie, Walford

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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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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

18.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

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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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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

24.

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

Spader, James

25.

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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

27.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

28.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

29.

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

Alexander, Scott

30.

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

Collier, Robert

31.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

35.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

36.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Chanel, Coco

38.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

41.

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.

Billings, Josh

42.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

46.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

47.

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

Groucho Marx

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