Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

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Best Quotes about Money

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Chandler, Raymond

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Karbo, Joe

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Youngman, Henny

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Plutarch

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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

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Asnas, Max

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

Ken Hakuta

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

33.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Wilson, Earl

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

42.

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

Ernest Haskins

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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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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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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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 manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx