Motivational Quotes

Money

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

- Henry Fielding

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Horace

10.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Groucho Marx

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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

25.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

27.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

28.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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

33.

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

Evan Esar

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Chanel, Coco

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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 never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi