Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Money

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Johnson, Ben

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

11.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Youngman, Henny

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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 have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Benjamin Franklin

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Asnas, Max

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

Austen, Jane

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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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

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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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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

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.