Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Burgess, Anthony

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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.

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

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Johnson, Ben

12.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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

Sir Thomas More

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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 most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Jane Austen

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

Clark, Frank A.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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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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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

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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

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Sophocles

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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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert