Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Ward, Artemus

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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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

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Davenport, Rita

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lucian

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Quant, Mary

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

Jonathan Swift

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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