Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Milligan, Spike

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clason, George S.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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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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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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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 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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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 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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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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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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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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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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.