Motivational Quotes

Money

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Money

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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

Chanel, Coco

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Plutarch

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Barrymore, John

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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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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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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Asnas, Max

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Phillips, Michael

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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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.

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

Getty, J. Paul