Motivational Quotes

Money

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

- Adams, Joey

Best Quotes about Money

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

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

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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

Lucian

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Orben, Robert

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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