Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Money

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

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.

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rolland, Romain

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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 just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Davenport, Rita

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Clason, George S.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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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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