Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Hill, Napoleon

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Williams, Tennessee

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Williams, Les

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

Wilson, Earl

11.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

12.

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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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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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.

15.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

17.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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.

22.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Chanel, Coco

25.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

26.

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

Quant, Mary

27.

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Juvenal

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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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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

33.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

34.

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

Austen, Jane

35.

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

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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 more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

42.

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.

43.

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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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

45.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

46.

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

Traub, Marvin

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.