Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Money

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ken Hakuta

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hudnick, Gittel

11.

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

Quant, Mary

12.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

13.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Bodie, Walford

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

Egan, Sir John

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Davenport, Rita

23.

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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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Fielding, Henry

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Carson, Johnny

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

G. K. Chesterton

40.

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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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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

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ovid

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

49.

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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don