Motivational Quotes

Money

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

- Monroe, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Money

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Egan, Sir John

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Horace

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

W. Somerset Maugham

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

12.

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 without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

20.

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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

34.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Jonathan Swift

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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