Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Lynn Johnston

12.

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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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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

19.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

20.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

21.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

22.

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 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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

25.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Leo Rosten

30.

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

Orben, Robert

31.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

34.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Earle, Bill

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

41.

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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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

50.

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