Motivational Quotes

Money

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Money

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Propertius, Sextus

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

12.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

13.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

18.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

19.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

20.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Austen, Jane

26.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

27.

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

Mike Tatum

28.

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

Williams, Les

29.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

30.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

Ward, Artemus

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

37.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

44.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

47.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

48.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.