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

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kin Hubbard

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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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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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Fielding, Henry

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

45.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Leo Rosten