Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Wilson, Earl

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Fields, W. C.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Katharine Whitehorn

18.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

21.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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 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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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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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'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

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

Jackie Mason

30.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

32.

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

33.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

41.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

43.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

44.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

45.

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

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.