Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Leo Rosten

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.

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

Ford, Henry

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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.

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

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

Bible

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Horace

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Ney, Richard

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

Ken Hakuta

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Sophocles

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Evan Esar

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Milligan, Spike

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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

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Barrymore, John

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.