Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

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.

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

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

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

Alexander, Scott

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Leo Rosten

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

Ruskin, John

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

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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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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 only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sophocles

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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

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Plutarch

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

Ford, Henry

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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