Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Katharine Whitehorn

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Sir Thomas More

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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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 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

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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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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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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