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 the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Egan, Sir John

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

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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

11.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Evan Esar

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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

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

17.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

18.

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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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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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Spader, James

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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.

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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 only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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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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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Traub, Marvin

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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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller