Motivational Quotes

Money

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Jonathan Swift

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 may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Jane Austen

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Seneca

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

10.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Brown, Hobart

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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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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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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.

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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.

17.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

18.

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

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

20.

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

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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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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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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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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

27.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

28.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

29.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

30.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

31.

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

Egan, Sir John

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

38.

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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chandler, Raymond