Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Money

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Sir Thomas More

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

10.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

12.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

13.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Chanel, Coco

18.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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 usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Horace

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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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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 nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Plutarch

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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