Motivational Quotes

Money

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

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

Edith Wharton

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Barrymore, John

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

Luther, Martin

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Leo Rosten

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Collier, Robert

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.