Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Spader, James

Best Quotes about Money

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Ford, Henry

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

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Clason, George S.

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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

Evan Esar

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

Davenport, Rita

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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 important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Twain, Mark

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

Spader, James

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ruskin, John

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson