Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Ney, Richard

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Ford, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, 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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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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 poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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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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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leo Rosten

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Bunning, Charles F.

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson