Motivational Quotes

Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Money

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Ney, Richard

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.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lemmon, Jack

11.

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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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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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

20.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

34.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

35.

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

Bible

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Christina Stead

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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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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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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jane Austen

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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