Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Greeley, Horace

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Jonathan Swift

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Proverb, Japanese

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Horace

21.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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.

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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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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

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

28.

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.

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

Ford, Henry

30.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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

37.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

38.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

39.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

40.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Lynn Johnston

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.