Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

- Starr, Roger

Best Quotes about Money

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Johnson, Ben

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Sir Thomas More

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

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Ford, Henry

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

19.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

20.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Youngman, Henny

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

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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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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 is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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.

34.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

35.

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

Barrymore, John

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin