Motivational Quotes

Money

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

- Murdoch, Rupert

Best Quotes about Money

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Jonathan Swift

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Collier, Robert

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Henry Fielding

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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 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 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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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

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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Lynn Johnston

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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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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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Horace

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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 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.

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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 love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.