Motivational Quotes

Money

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Best Quotes about Money

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

Phillips, Michael

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

Egan, Sir John

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

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

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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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Mike Tatum

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Evan Esar

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

Horace

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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

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

Bible

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jane Austen

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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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 doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Plutarch

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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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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

46.

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

W. Somerset Maugham