Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Bodie, Walford

Best Quotes about Money

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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.

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Asnas, Max

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

Voltaire

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Jonathan Swift

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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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 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 money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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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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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

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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 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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Phillips, Michael

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Luther, Martin

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Ken Hakuta

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George