Motivational Quotes

Money

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

- Ovid

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

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bible

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

Henry Fielding

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Spader, James

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

43.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Evan Esar

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Plato

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

Ken Hakuta

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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