Motivational Quotes

Money

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Groucho Marx

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Horace

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ken Hakuta

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Alexander, Scott

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Brown, Les

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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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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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

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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 is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rolland, Romain

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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

43.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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