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

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

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

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

10.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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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.

18.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

19.

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

Horace

20.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

21.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Ward, Artemus

24.

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

Sophocles

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

29.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

30.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Themistocles

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

36.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

37.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

38.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

Waitley, Denis

41.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

44.

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

Lemmon, Jack

45.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

46.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

47.

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

G. K. Chesterton

48.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead