Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Money

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Spader, James

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

Clark, Frank A.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

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

Sophocles

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

13.

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

Plutarch

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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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

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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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Carson, Johnny

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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 is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

29.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

France, Anatole

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Ney, Richard

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

Karbo, Joe

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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 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.