Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Money

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jackson, Glenda

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Christina Stead

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

11.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

13.

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

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Themistocles

18.

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

Kin Hubbard

19.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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

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

Mike Tatum

22.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

27.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

28.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

29.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

31.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

34.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

35.

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

Phillips, Michael

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

39.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Sophocles

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

45.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

47.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul