Motivational Quotes

Money

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Japanese

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Earle, Bill

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

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

Horace

21.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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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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

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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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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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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

37.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Henry Fielding

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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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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.

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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

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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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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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Dickens, Charles

48.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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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.