Motivational Quotes

Money

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Money

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

Williams, Tennessee

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Egan, Sir John

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Burgess, Anthony

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

10.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

11.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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 plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Quant, Mary

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Sophocles

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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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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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

25.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

26.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ken Hakuta

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

43.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Johnson, Ben

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Spader, James

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen