Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ward, Artemus

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Evan Esar

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

Ken Hakuta

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

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

e e cummings

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Rohn, Jim

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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 just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Twain, Mark

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Spader, James

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

Sophocles

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

Lemmon, Jack

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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

Karbo, Joe

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.