Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Davenport, Rita

Best Quotes about Money

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Milligan, Spike

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

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Luther, Martin

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Spader, James

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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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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Barrymore, John

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Ken Hakuta

31.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Karbo, Joe

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Williams, Tennessee