Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ken Hakuta

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spader, James

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

Wilde, Stuart

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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

Brown, Les

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

Bible

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

Ward, Artemus

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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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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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 never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.