Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Groucho Marx

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.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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.

11.

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

Johnson, Ben

12.

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

Plutarch

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

14.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

15.

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

Lemmon, Jack

16.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

18.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

22.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

23.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

24.

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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

32.

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

Rebecca Johnson

33.

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

Getty, J. Paul

34.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

35.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

37.

Josh Lieb

38.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

40.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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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 is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Ney, Richard

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

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.