Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Plutarch

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Bumper Sticker

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

11.

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

Spader, James

12.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

13.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Sir Thomas More

17.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

27.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

28.

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

Henry Fielding

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

Plato

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

Burgess, Anthony

34.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

38.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

43.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

45.

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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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Voltaire

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea