Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

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

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

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

Ward, Artemus

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

Proverb, Japanese

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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

12.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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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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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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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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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Clark, Frank A.

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilson, Earl

32.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

40.

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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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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Plutarch

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carson, Johnny

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kin Hubbard