Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Money

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Adams, Joey

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Brown, Les

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Spader, James

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Getty, J. Paul

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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 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.

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius