Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ward, Artemus

Best Quotes about Money

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

e e cummings

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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

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

Themistocles

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Mike Tatum

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

O'Malley, Austin

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.