Motivational Quotes

Money

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Money

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

Benjamin Franklin

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Orben, Robert

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

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

Ovid

10.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

11.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

12.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

13.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

14.

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

15.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

17.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

18.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

19.

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

20.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

21.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

22.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

25.

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

Horace

26.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

27.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Groucho Marx

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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

30.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

33.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

35.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

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

Ken Hakuta

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Japanese

40.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

41.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

44.

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

Sir Thomas More

45.

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

Earle, Bill

46.

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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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

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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

49.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Starr, Roger