Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

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

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Fielding, Henry

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

21.

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

Asnas, Max

22.

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

Sir Thomas More

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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.

24.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

Egan, Sir John

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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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Swift, Jonathan

34.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

35.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

36.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

44.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott