Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Asnas, Max

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

30.

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

Johnson, Ben

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

32.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

33.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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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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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Milligan, Spike

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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