Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ayckbourn, Alan

Best Quotes about Money

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Traub, Marvin

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

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Voltaire

14.

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

Egan, Sir John

16.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

17.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

18.

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.

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

e e cummings

20.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

24.

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

27.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

28.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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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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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

32.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

34.

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

35.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

36.

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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

38.

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

G. K. Chesterton

39.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

40.

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

Plato

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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