Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Davenport, Rita

Best Quotes about Money

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Ziglar, Zig

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Juvenal

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

Blotnick, Srully

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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.

11.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

12.

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

Kin Hubbard

13.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

14.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

15.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

16.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

17.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

18.

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

19.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

21.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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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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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

24.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

25.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

26.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Horace

28.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

30.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Propertius, Sextus

32.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

33.

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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

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.

36.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

37.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

38.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Collier, Robert

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

44.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

45.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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

Getty, J. Paul

47.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.