Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Traub, Marvin

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ney, Richard

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Clason, George S.

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

Alexander, Scott

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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

Clark, Frank A.

48.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.