Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Money

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lucian

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jonathan Swift

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Earle, Bill

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Evan Esar

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Spader, James

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Seneca

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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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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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo