Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Money

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

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.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

11.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

12.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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

25.

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

26.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

28.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

34.

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

35.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Earl

40.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

41.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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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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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo