Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Juvenal

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Voltaire

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Egan, Sir John

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Starr, Roger

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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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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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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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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.