Motivational Quotes

Money

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Money

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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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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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Chanel, Coco

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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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

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Chandler, Raymond

32.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Collier, Robert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Keynes, John Maynard