Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ward, Artemus

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Davenport, Rita

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Brown, Les

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Rebecca Johnson

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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

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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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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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