Motivational Quotes

Money

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

- Ken Hakuta

Best Quotes about Money

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Clason, George S.

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

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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.

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

Jane Austen

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Clark, Frank A.

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

37.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark