Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sanders, Col. Harland

Best Quotes about Money

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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

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

Barrymore, John

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Ford, Henry

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Williams, Les

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

Lennon, John

33.

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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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