Motivational Quotes

Money

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

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

Leo Rosten

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Austen, Jane

10.

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

Collier, Robert

11.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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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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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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Luther, Martin

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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.

26.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

28.

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

Alexander, Scott

29.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

30.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

33.

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

Clason, George S.

36.

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

Lynn Johnston

37.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

38.

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

Davenport, Rita

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

43.

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

Benjamin Franklin

45.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

49.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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