Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Milligan, Spike

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Witkin, Georgia

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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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 want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Twain, Mark

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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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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

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Swift, Jonathan

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda