Motivational Quotes

Money

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Money

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Waitley, Denis

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

G. K. Chesterton

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jane Austen

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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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 often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Henry Fielding

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.