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

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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 couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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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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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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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

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Ward, Artemus

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Williams, Les

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Lucian

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Voltaire