Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Hudnick, Gittel

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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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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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

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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

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Jackie Mason

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Carson, Johnny

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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