Motivational Quotes

Money

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

- Blotnick, Srully

Best Quotes about Money

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Wilde, Stuart

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ward, Artemus

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Chanel, Coco

10.

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

Lucian

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Williams, Les

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

Johnson, Ben

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Egan, Sir John

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

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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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

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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 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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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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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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

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald