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

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Plato

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.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Buffett, Warren

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Christina Stead

10.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

11.

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

Getty, J. Paul

12.

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

Bible

13.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

18.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

19.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

20.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

22.

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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bodie, Walford

25.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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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

35.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

36.

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

Graham, Billy

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

Ney, Richard

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

Fulghum, Robert

41.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

42.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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.