Motivational Quotes

Money

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

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

Burgess, Anthony

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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

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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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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Rohn, Jim

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Getty, J. Paul

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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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.

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin