Motivational Quotes

Money

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Marx, Karl

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Propertius, Sextus

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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

Bowen, Ezra

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

11.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Sophocles

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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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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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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Brown, Les

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Plato

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jane Austen

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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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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

47.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

49.

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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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