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

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

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

12.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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.

Bird, Larry

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

18.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

19.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Jonathan Swift

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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

24.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

25.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

26.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

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

Burgess, Anthony

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

32.

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

33.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

34.

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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

36.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

37.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Earle, Bill

39.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sophocles

41.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

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.

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.