Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Collier, Robert

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

Orben, Robert

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

11.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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

13.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Leo Rosten

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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 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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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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 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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Benjamin Franklin

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Karbo, Joe

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

43.

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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Traub, Marvin

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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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

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner