Motivational Quotes

Money

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Money

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

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Brown, Hobart

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Christina Stead

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Plato

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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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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ovid

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

Milligan, Spike

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Plutarch

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Egan, Sir John

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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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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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

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

Fulghum, Robert

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.