Motivational Quotes

Money

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Money

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

Blotnick, Srully

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

17.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

18.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

22.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bumper Sticker

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

29.

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

Spader, James

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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 alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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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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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Henry Fielding

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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