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

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

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ney, Richard

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

Sir Thomas More

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Alexander, Scott

23.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Earle, Bill

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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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

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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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

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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