Motivational Quotes

Money

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Money

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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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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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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

Voltaire

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Ruskin, John

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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 can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Witkin, Georgia

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.