Motivational Quotes

Money

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Money

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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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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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

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

Chandler, Raymond

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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.

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

Christina Stead

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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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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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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

Edith Wharton

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Waitley, Denis

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.