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

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Collier, Robert

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

11.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

17.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

18.

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

Plutarch

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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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.

21.

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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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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

24.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

27.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

30.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

33.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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 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

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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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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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