Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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

e e cummings

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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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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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

Traub, Marvin

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Fields, W. C.

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

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

27.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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 day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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

Lynn Johnston

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon