Motivational Quotes

Money

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Henry Fielding

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

10.

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

Alexander, Scott

11.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

12.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Seneca

18.

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

Getty, J. Paul

19.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fulghum, Robert

25.

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

Traub, Marvin

26.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

27.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

32.

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

Starr, Roger

33.

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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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

35.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Kin Hubbard

38.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

39.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Davenport, Rita

44.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

45.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

46.

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

Clason, George S.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra