Motivational Quotes

Money

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Money

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Collier, Robert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Lemmon, Jack

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Burgess, Anthony

11.

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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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.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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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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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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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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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

31.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Rolland, Romain

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.