Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sir Thomas More

Best Quotes about Money

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Lemmon, Jack

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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

Jonathan Swift

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

13.

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

Lynn Johnston

14.

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.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

21.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

22.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

23.

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

Ford, Henry

24.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

25.

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Earle, Bill

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

29.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

31.

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

32.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.