Motivational Quotes

Money

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

- Donald Trump

Best Quotes about Money

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Plato

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Waitley, Denis

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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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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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Plutarch

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Earle, Bill

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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.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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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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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.