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

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Bumper Sticker

11.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

12.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Phillips, Michael

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

20.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

21.

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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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

28.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

30.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Davenport, Rita

35.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

36.

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

Horace

37.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

43.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

45.

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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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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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

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

Chanel, Coco

49.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

50.

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