Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

- Clason, George S.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ken Hakuta

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

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Adams, Joey

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jackson, Glenda

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Ovid

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

Blotnick, Srully

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Phillips, Michael

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Starr, Roger

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Austen, Jane

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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 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

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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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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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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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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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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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.