Motivational Quotes

Money

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Money

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Twain, Mark

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Collier, Robert

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

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Jackie Mason

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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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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

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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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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Chanel, Coco

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Seneca

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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 poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Plato

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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 fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.