Motivational Quotes

Money

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Money

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Buffett, Warren

11.

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

Benjamin Franklin

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

15.

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

Davenport, Rita

16.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

17.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

18.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

21.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Plato

27.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

28.

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

G. K. Chesterton

29.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

30.

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

Youngman, Henny

31.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

32.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.