Motivational Quotes

Money

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Money

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Collier, Robert

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

11.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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.

13.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

28.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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

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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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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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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

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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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.

Amis, Martin

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

46.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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