Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Blotnick, Srully

Best Quotes about Money

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Bible

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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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

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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.

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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