Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Spader, James

Best Quotes about Money

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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

Edith Wharton

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

13.

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

Brown, Hobart

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire

27.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lennon, John

32.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bible

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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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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