Motivational Quotes

Money

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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Best Quotes about Money

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

Jonathan Swift

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

Buffett, Warren

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

32.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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.