Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Milligan, Spike

Best Quotes about Money

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

Horace

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Karbo, Joe

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Voltaire

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Christina Stead

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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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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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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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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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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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

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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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 not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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