Motivational Quotes

Money

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Money

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Orben, Robert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin Franklin

10.

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.

11.

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

Mike Tatum

12.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

14.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

18.

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

Propertius, Sextus

19.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

21.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

24.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

25.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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 doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

30.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

31.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

35.

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

36.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

38.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

39.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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