Motivational Quotes

Money

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Money

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

10.

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

Sir Thomas More

11.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

12.

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

13.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

17.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

21.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

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

23.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Plato

25.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

26.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

27.

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

Henry Fielding

28.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

29.

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

Starr, Roger

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

33.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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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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

37.

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

Milligan, Spike

38.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

40.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

42.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

44.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

45.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

48.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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.

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra