Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Money

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Plutarch

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Collier, Robert

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Carson, Johnny

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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.

36.

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

Juvenal

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Ken Hakuta

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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 doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Bodie, Walford

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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain