Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Witkin, Georgia

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

Twain, Mark

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Burgess, Anthony

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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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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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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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ken Hakuta

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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

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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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

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