Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Proverb, Yiddish

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Carson, Johnny

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

11.

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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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Spader, James

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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 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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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

24.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

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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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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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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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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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