Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Spader, James

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Brown, Hobart

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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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

11.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

28.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Johnson, Ben

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Asnas, Max

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Sir Thomas More

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian