Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Money

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Johnson, Ben

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

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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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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Traub, Marvin

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Rolland, Romain

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.