Motivational Quotes

Money

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

- Proverb, American Indian

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Alexander, Scott

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barrymore, John

15.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Jonathan Swift

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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 more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

32.

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

Jane Austen

33.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Fielding, Henry

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Chanel, Coco

40.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

44.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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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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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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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