Motivational Quotes

Money

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Leo Rosten

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Ney, Richard

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

Austen, Jane

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Traub, Marvin

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

33.

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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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 is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Wilson, Earl

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson