Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plutarch

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.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Starr, Roger

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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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

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

14.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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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

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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 fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Fielding, Henry

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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

Luther, Martin

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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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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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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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

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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