Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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.

39.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Quant, Mary

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Lynn Johnston

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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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

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

Davenport, Rita

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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.

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

Lucian

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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