Motivational Quotes

Money

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Money

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

Donald Trump

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Plutarch

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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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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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Carson, Johnny

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings