Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Money

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Austen, Jane

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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

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

Edith Wharton

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Buffett, Warren

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Ovid

19.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

21.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

22.

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

Asnas, Max

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ken Hakuta

26.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

30.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Wilde, Stuart

32.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fields, W. C.

39.

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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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Fielding, Henry

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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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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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.