Motivational Quotes

Money

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Money

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Jonathan Swift

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Jackie Mason

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Waitley, Denis

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Alexander, Scott

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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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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Mike Tatum