Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. — Danny Devito
At the end of the day, it's all about money. — Garry Kasparov
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried. — Ice Cube
Some people are motivated by money – I’m not one of them. — Harry Kane
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. — Benjamin Franklin
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. — Aristotle
Short Money Is The Motive Quotes
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg
Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn
A married man with a family will do anything for money. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Money is always moving. — Andrew Tate
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master. — Gretchen Rubin
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen
All money is a matter of belief. — Adam Smith
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. — Voltaire
Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey. — Benjamin Franklin
Money Is The Motive Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Money Motivation Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. — Earl Wilson
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop — Gertrude Stein
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
Why Money Is Important Quotes
What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance. — Barbara Coloroso
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so. — Hunter S. Thompson
Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being. — David Packard
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups. — George W. Bush
I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money. — Jane Campion
What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The joy of Spirit is the reward of Spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava
What Is Money Quotes
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett
In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy. — Trevor Noah
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. — Joni Mitchell
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody. — Hopsin
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. — Phil Crosby
Profit Motive Quotes
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. — Lisa Bonet
Digital transformation helps create new jobs, improves profits, and half of all revenues are influenced by digital. — Vladimer Botsvadze
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington. — Charles Koch
To me, the word profitable means sustainable – able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence. — John W. Henry
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous. — Dale Carnegie
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living. — Walter Rauschenbusch
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation. — Steve Jobs
Pursuit Of Money Quotes
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. — Pythagoras
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. — John Rawls
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time. — Jerry Only
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time. — Gerald Caiafa
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. — J. Irwin Miller
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. — P. J. O'Rourke
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again. — Paul Solman
[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives. — Martha Gellhorn
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. — Jean De La Bruyere
Money Is Ultimate Quotes
What keeps a person passive and compliant is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don’t ultimately matter – money, career, physical safety – you can overcome that fear. — Glenn Greenwald
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
The ultimate purpose of money is so that you do not have to be in a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don’t want to do. — Naval Ravikant
One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money. — Jean-Baptiste Say
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted. — Alan Greenspan
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor. — Viola Davis
Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. — Dan Miller
Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to. — Robert Kiyosaki
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests. — James E. Faust
A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money. — Robert B. Laughlin
Selfish Motives Quotes
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. — Mother Teresa
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. — Swami Vivekananda
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. — Henry Ford
If I had my way, I would not want influence over anyone but my little family. — Enoch Adeboye
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Ramakrishna
I write from my life, my experience. I’m selfish that way. — Pink
Even at a large corporation, you’re essentially the only person who looks out for your own best interests. — Paul Jarvis
We want to hire people who are self-learners. — Eric Yuan
Love Of Money Quotes
Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people. — Joseph Prince
Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty. — T. B. Joshua
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. — Jackie Mason
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. — Paul the Apostle
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. — John Gierach
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen. — Polycarp
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul. — Saint John Chrysostom
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. — Mitch Albom
Good Motive Quotes
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. — Carl Rogers
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. — W. C. Fields
To make money in stocks, you need to have vision to see them, courage to buy them and patience to hold them. Patience is the rarest of the three. — Thomas Phelps
Money is a bonus of the job, but it doesn’t always make you happy. — Harry Kane
My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation. — Michael Milken
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. — Charles R. Schwab
I don’t fight for the money, but every person is different. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed. — Ross Perot
The second characteristic of resilient people is a sense of purpose – being motivated by a sense of meaning rather than just money. — Paul Jarvis
I never fight for the money, this is about my heart, this is about my spirit, this is about where I am from. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. — Dee Hock
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. — Izaak Walton
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. — John Naisbitt
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. — Mike Ditka
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work. — Mike Piazza
Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges. — Felix Dennis
The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith. — Rick Warren
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it. — Hamid Karzai
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand
Education is more valuable than money, in the long run. — Robert Kiyosaki
Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place. — Guy Kawasaki
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan. — Robert Kiyosaki
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. — William Lyon Phelps
We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career. — Owen Jones
The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock 'n' roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they're not alone. — Patti Smith
Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning. — Tyra Banks
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy. — Barbara Corcoran
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me. — Paulo Coelho
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates. — P. J. O'Rourke
The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. — Daniel H. Pink
The motivation to start the infrastructure business was to have at least one business that gives you annuity income. Others are services businesses that don't give you annuity income. If you keep the customer happy, you make money. But in a household, if there are five people, keeping all of them happy is also difficult. — Subhas Chandra Bose
The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don't think money's a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine. — Barbara Corcoran
Popular success is a wonderful gift if it happens, but like money, it's not the motivation. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation. — Claire Messud
If the only thing that you want to do is make money - if that's your whole motivation - I think you're lying to yourself. If the only motivation you have is to make money and make it, what's making it? Oh, you get a yacht or an island. Well, you're going to need someone to be on that island. You're going to need people, one way or another. — Willis Earl Beal
A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for it, money from it, or if it's a cathartic experience to do it, whatever their motivation that is valid for them. That's the artist's motivator. — Michael C. McMillen
I am not fond of giving advice; people are different, circumstances are different, motivations vary, but overall I would say that no amount of success or attention will create happiness in your life unless one is happy within themselves and we learn that the money won't buy it. So find out what brings you joy and inspires happiness, and fight for it. — Guinevere Van Seenus
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it. — Mark M. Ford
There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws. — Paul Watson
I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt. — Yuri Milner
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