Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

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.

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

11.

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

Alexander, Scott

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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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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

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Austen, Jane

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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

Clason, George S.

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.