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

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Christina Stead

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

e e cummings

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Sophocles

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lucian

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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

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Leo Rosten