Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Money

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

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Groucho Marx

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Ford, Henry

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

18.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wilde, Stuart

20.

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

Quant, Mary

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

Bodie, Walford

23.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

25.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Sir Thomas More

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

Brown, Hobart

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ken Hakuta

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Twain, Mark

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

42.

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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Bible

47.

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ney, Richard

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry