Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Earle, Bill

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ward, Artemus

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.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Brown, Les

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

10.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

11.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

12.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

14.

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Leo Rosten

16.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

18.

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

Donald Trump

19.

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

Alexander, Scott

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Plutarch

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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

28.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

29.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

32.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

36.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Ney, Richard

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

40.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

41.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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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.

43.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Jackie Mason

45.

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

Ovid

46.

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

Rolland, Romain

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

48.

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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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 a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy