Motivational Quotes

Money

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

- Mccracken, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Collier, Robert

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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 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.

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

34.

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

Youngman, Henny

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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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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Brown, Les

40.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Alexander, Scott

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynn Johnston

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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 talks and often just says, Good Bye.