Motivational Quotes

Money

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Money

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

Fielding, Henry

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Quant, Mary

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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

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

Wilde, Stuart

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

18.

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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

21.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Blotnick, Srully

28.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Edith Wharton

31.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

36.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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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.

41.

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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Jonathan Swift

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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