Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ruskin, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

France, Anatole

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Juvenal

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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

11.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Sophocles

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Getty, J. Paul

23.

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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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Bodie, Walford

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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

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

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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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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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

35.

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

Brown, Les

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

Lucian

39.

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

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ovid

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Williams, Les