Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Money

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Groucho Marx

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Ovid

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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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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.

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Kin Hubbard

16.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

19.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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

21.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

22.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

24.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Plato

28.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

29.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

30.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

33.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Rolland, Romain

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

39.

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

Adams, Joey

40.

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

Karbo, Joe

41.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

42.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

47.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

49.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

50.

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