Motivational Quotes

Money

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Money

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

Davenport, Rita

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

Lucian

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Leo Rosten

11.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

12.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

13.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

14.

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

Asnas, Max

15.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

16.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Ruskin, John

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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.

23.

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

Lynn Johnston

24.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

29.

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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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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Horace

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

36.

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

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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Adams, Joey

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