Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Robert W. Sarnoff

Best Quotes about Money

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

Traub, Marvin

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

15.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Lennon, John

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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 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.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

25.

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

Jane Austen

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

France, Anatole

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Henry Fielding

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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

40.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

41.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

43.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ken Hakuta

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Onassis, Aristotle