Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Blotnick, Srully

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Ruskin, John

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Johnson, Ben

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Collier, Robert

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

Traub, Marvin

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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

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clark, Frank A.

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Propertius, Sextus

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Luther, Martin

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.