Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Money

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

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Jane Austen

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Themistocles

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

Keynes, John Maynard

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Japanese

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

11.

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Brown, Les

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Asnas, Max

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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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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 is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Fields, W. C.

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Sir Thomas More

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Clark, Frank A.

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Collier, Robert

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Collier, Robert

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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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.

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra