Motivational Quotes

Money

Money can't buy poverty.

- Feldman, Marty

Best Quotes about Money

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Christina Stead

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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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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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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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

34.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis