Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Money

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Ward, Artemus

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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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

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Collier, Robert

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

Plato

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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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

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.