Motivational Quotes

Money

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Money

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Thomas More

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

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

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

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Orben, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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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

33.

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

Davenport, Rita

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horace

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Ken Hakuta

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street