Motivational Quotes

Money

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Money

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Donald Trump

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Youngman, Henny

18.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

20.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Asnas, Max

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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Milligan, Spike

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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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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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Juvenal

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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

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert