Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Chanel, Coco

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

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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

11.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

12.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

13.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

17.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

18.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

19.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Orben, Robert

23.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

26.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Austen, Jane

28.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

31.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Adams, Joey

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Chandler, Raymond

42.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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