Motivational Quotes

Money

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Money

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

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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

11.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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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 universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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

Leo Rosten

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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

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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

30.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

36.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

40.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Fulghum, Robert

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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