Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

11.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Jonathan Swift

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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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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.

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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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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

18.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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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

23.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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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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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

Luther, Martin

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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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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

33.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

38.

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

Collier, Robert

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Davenport, Rita