Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Spader, James

Best Quotes about Money

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

10.

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

Williams, Tennessee

11.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

12.

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

Ovid

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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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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.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

20.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

21.

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

Traub, Marvin

22.

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

Twain, Mark

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

32.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

35.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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

37.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Mike Tatum

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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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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.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

49.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Davenport, Rita