Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clark, Frank A.

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.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Voltaire

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Buffett, Warren

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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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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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

Donald Trump

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Horace

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Plutarch

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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