Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Jonathan Swift

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Luther, Martin

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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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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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Rolland, Romain

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Fielding, Henry

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Graham, Billy

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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

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Davenport, Rita

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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.