Motivational Quotes

Money

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

- Themistocles

Best Quotes about Money

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

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.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

10.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Williams, Tennessee

13.

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

Clark, Frank A.

15.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

16.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

17.

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

Egan, Sir John

18.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Bible

20.

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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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

22.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

27.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Asnas, Max

29.

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.

30.

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

Clason, George S.

31.

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

Kin Hubbard

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Sir Thomas More

34.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Ney, Richard

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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

41.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

42.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

43.

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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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

45.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

46.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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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.

49.

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.

50.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca