Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Money

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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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

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Fielding, Henry

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Karbo, Joe

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.