Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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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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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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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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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Jackie Mason

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.