Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Money

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

Milligan, Spike

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Benjamin Franklin

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

12.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

Voltaire

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Evan Esar

33.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

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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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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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ford, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin