Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Money

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

Groucho Marx

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

Branson, Richard

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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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 is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blotnick, Srully

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ruskin, John

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Juvenal

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray