Motivational Quotes

Money

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Money

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Johnson, Ben

12.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Orben, Robert

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Sophocles

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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

Spader, James

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Horace

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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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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

39.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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