Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Quant, Mary

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

14.

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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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.

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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

19.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

20.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

21.

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

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

24.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

34.

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

Jane Austen

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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

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

Austen, Jane

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

43.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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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.

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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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

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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