Motivational Quotes

Money

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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.

Gibran, Kahlil

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

10.

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

Leo Rosten

11.

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

Bible

12.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

14.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

15.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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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

20.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

21.

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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

23.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

25.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Jonathan Swift

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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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.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sophocles

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Witkin, Georgia

40.

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

O'Malley, Austin

43.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.