Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Alexander, Scott

Best Quotes about Money

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Proverb, Japanese

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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

10.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

12.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

13.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

14.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

15.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Benjamin Franklin

21.

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

Propertius, Sextus

22.

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

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Clark, Frank A.

27.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Austen, Jane

31.

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.

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

33.

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

Wilson, Earl

34.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

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

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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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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

39.

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.

40.

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

Carson, Johnny

41.

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

42.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

43.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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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

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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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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.

48.

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

Sir Thomas More

49.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max