Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Money

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

10.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

11.

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

Johnson, Ben

12.

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

Groucho Marx

13.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Spader, James

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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

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

17.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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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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.

20.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

21.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

22.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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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

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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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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

30.

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

Rolland, Romain

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ken Hakuta

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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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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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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

42.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

43.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Getty, J. Paul

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