Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Davenport, Rita

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Earle, Bill

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

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fielding, Henry

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Juvenal

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Clark, Frank A.

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Ney, Richard

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland