Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Clason, George S.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Plato

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

Alexander, Scott

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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

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Chandler, Raymond

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Ney, Richard

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Orben, Robert

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

Spader, James

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Ward, Artemus

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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 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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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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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

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

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

Earle, Bill

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward