Motivational Quotes

Money

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Edith Wharton

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

Earle, Bill

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

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

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Chanel, Coco

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Horace

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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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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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Horace

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

Ward, Artemus

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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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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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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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Benjamin Franklin

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Branson, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Asnas, Max

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.