Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Orben, Robert

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

O'Malley, Austin

11.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

12.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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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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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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 health, happiness, or what it did last year.

22.

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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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

27.

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

Austen, Jane

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

29.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Ken Hakuta

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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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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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

41.

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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