Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Waitley, Denis

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Blotnick, Srully

10.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Juvenal

12.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

13.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

14.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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 things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Wilson, Earl

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

21.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

24.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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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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.

27.

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.

28.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

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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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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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

32.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

33.

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

Austen, Jane

34.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

39.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

40.

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

41.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

42.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

43.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

44.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

46.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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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

49.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon