Motivational Quotes

Money

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Money

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Twain, Mark

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Spader, James

11.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

18.

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

Collier, Robert

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

21.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

24.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

25.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

28.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

29.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

30.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sir Thomas More

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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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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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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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