Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Benjamin Franklin

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Ovid

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

13.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

14.

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

Adams, Joey

16.

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

Johnson, Ben

17.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

18.

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

Alexander, Scott

19.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

20.

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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Leo Rosten

23.

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

24.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Barrymore, John

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

31.

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

Edith Wharton

32.

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

Collier, Robert

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

34.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

43.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

45.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Rebecca Johnson

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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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