Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Money

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Monroe, Marilyn

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

Ruskin, John

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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

18.

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

Blotnick, Srully

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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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

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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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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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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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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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

Benjamin Franklin

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Fields, W. C.

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.