Motivational Quotes

Money

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

- Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Best Quotes about Money

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Seneca

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Ovid

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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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

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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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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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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Buffett, Warren

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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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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 often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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