Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

Jane Austen

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

Lennon, John

10.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Getty, J. Paul

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Ruskin, John

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

20.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Milligan, Spike

22.

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

Blotnick, Srully

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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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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

25.

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

Rolland, Romain

26.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

27.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

28.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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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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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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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

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Lucian

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

44.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Proverb, Japanese

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Evan Esar

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

Jonathan Swift