Motivational Quotes

Money

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Lemmon, Jack

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

10.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

11.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

16.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Austen, Jane

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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

21.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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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

26.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

27.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

28.

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

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Lucian

35.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

36.

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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Plutarch

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

e e cummings

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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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Collier, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Jewish