Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is just a way of keeping score.

- Hunt, H. L.

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Ford, Henry

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Collier, Robert

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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.

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Davenport, Rita

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

16.

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

Austen, Jane

17.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

18.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

21.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

26.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

27.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

28.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

29.

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

Themistocles

30.

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

Edith Wharton

31.

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

Adams, Joey

32.

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

33.

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

Clason, George S.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

35.

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

36.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

37.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

38.

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

Fulghum, Robert

39.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

40.

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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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

42.

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.

43.

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

Donald Trump

44.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

46.

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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

49.

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

Buffett, Warren

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)