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

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

O'Malley, Austin

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Edith Wharton

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

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

Lucilius, Gaius

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

10.

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

Bowen, Ezra

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

13.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

14.

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

Earle, Bill

16.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

17.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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

20.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Sophocles

24.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

27.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

28.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

29.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

30.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

31.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

32.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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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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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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

37.

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

38.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

42.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.