Motivational Quotes

Money

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

- Fulghum, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

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

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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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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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Evan Esar

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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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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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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Plutarch

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

Jackie Mason

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

35.

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

Jonathan Swift

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Traub, Marvin

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Phillips, Michael

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.