Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Voltaire

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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.

10.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

12.

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

Plato

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

Rolland, Romain

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Propertius, Sextus

21.

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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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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

26.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

28.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

29.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

33.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

39.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Evan Esar

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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

Jonathan Swift