Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Greeley, Horace

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

10.

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

Bumper Sticker

11.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

15.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Johnson, Ben

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

24.

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

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

27.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

30.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Brown, Hobart

32.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

33.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

34.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Davenport, Rita

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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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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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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Phillips, Michael

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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