Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Money

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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

11.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Blotnick, Srully

15.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

19.

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

Jackie Mason

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Brown, Les

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Austen, Jane

34.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

35.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Getty, J. Paul

41.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carson, Johnny

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Williams, Les

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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.