Motivational Quotes

Money

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Money

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Ken Hakuta

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

14.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

15.

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

Jonathan Swift

16.

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

17.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

18.

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

Sir Thomas More

19.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

23.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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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

27.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

28.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

30.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

34.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

35.

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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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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.

40.

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

Lynn Johnston

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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

42.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

43.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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.

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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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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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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