Motivational Quotes

Money

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

- Murdoch, Rupert

Best Quotes about Money

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Milligan, Spike

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

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sir Henry Taylor

10.

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

Evan Esar

11.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

12.

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

Benjamin Franklin

13.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Voltaire

17.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Mike Tatum

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

27.

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

Lemmon, Jack

28.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

32.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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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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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.

39.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

40.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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.

45.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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