Motivational Quotes

Money

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Money

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

Rolland, Romain

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Barrymore, John

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Ward, Artemus

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

21.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

40.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lemmon, Jack

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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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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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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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.