Motivational Quotes

Money

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Money

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 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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Quant, Mary

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

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Twain, Mark

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

Youngman, Henny

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

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

Earle, Bill

18.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

27.

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

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Jonathan Swift

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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

40.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

Benjamin Franklin

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

45.

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

Jackie Mason

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

Buffett, Warren

47.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

48.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Phillips, Michael