Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Money

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

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

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

Traub, Marvin

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

O'Malley, Austin

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ney, Richard

10.

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

11.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

13.

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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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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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

17.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

19.

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

Spader, James

20.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

21.

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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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

23.

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

Youngman, Henny

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

26.

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

Themistocles

29.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

30.

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

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

34.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

35.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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.

37.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

38.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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

40.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

41.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

42.

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

Lemmon, Jack

43.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

45.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

46.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

49.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Fielding, Henry