Motivational Quotes

Money

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Money

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Milligan, Spike

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lynn Johnston

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.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

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.

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

14.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Ruskin, John

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

19.

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

Brown, Hobart

20.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

21.

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

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

23.

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

Bodie, Walford

24.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

25.

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

Spader, James

26.

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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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

28.

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

Traub, Marvin

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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.

30.

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

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

32.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Barrymore, John

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Sir Thomas More

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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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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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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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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Ken Hakuta

44.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

45.

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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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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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.