Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Burgess, Anthony

Best Quotes about Money

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

12.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

14.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

15.

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

G. K. Chesterton

16.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

17.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

23.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

24.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

30.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

31.

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

Blotnick, Srully

32.

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

Rebecca Johnson

33.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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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

37.

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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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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

41.

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

42.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Lennon, John

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

Burgess, Anthony

47.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea