Motivational Quotes

Money

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

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.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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

Sir Thomas More

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Youngman, Henny

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Evan Esar

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

10.

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

Henry Fielding

11.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

12.

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

Johnson, Ben

13.

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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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.

16.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

18.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

19.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Starr, Roger

22.

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

Barrymore, John

23.

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

24.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

25.

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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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

27.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

28.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Adams, Joey

32.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

Bible

34.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

35.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

36.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

39.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

40.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

41.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

43.

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

44.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Voltaire

49.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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