Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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

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.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bumper Sticker

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Quant, Mary

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Davenport, Rita

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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

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Waitley, Denis

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

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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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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.