Motivational Quotes

Money

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Money

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Clark, Frank A.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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

Branson, Richard

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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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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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.

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Rohn, Jim

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Waitley, Denis

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

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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.