Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Donald Trump

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clason, George S.

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

Themistocles

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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.

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

Ward, Artemus

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Getty, J. Paul

12.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

13.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

18.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

19.

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

Bodie, Walford

20.

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

21.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

22.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

23.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

24.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

25.

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

Mike Tatum

26.

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

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

28.

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

G. K. Chesterton

30.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

31.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

32.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

34.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Collier, Robert

39.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Propertius, Sextus

41.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

42.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Juvenal

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

49.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

50.

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.