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

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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.

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

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Proverb, Japanese

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Jackson, Glenda

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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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

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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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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.