Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Donald Trump

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 is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Barrymore, John

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

17.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

18.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

21.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Ken Hakuta

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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.

28.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milligan, Spike

34.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

38.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

40.

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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

46.

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

Blotnick, Srully

47.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Williams, Les

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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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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