Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Twain, Mark

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

10.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

11.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

13.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Burgess, Anthony

28.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jane Austen

30.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

31.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

32.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

33.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

34.

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

Rebecca Johnson

35.

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.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Leo Rosten

38.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

39.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

40.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

41.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

43.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

45.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.