Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Brown, Hobart

Best Quotes about Money

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Proverb, Hebrew

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Ken Hakuta

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

10.

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

Egan, Sir John

11.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

12.

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

Buffett, Warren

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Karbo, Joe

15.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

16.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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.

18.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

19.

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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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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

24.

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

25.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

26.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

27.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

28.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

30.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Jackie Mason

33.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Austen, Jane

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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

40.

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

Luther, Martin

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

43.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.