Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Evan Esar

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

10.

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

Davenport, Rita

11.

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.

Byron, Lord

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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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

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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.

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

18.

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

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

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

Ward, Artemus

21.

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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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.

23.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

24.

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

Jonathan Swift

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

30.

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

Williams, Les

31.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

33.

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

Jackson, Glenda

34.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

35.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Edith Wharton

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

Kin Hubbard

40.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

e e cummings

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Egan, Sir John

44.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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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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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony