Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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.

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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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Bible

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Sir Thomas More

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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

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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

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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 is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Spader, James

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Henry Fielding