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

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal

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

Christina Stead

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lennon, John

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

Jackie Mason

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sophocles

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

18.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Ruskin, John

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kin Hubbard

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.