Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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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

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Juvenal

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

Rolland, Romain

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

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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

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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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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.