Motivational Quotes

Money

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Money

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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

e e cummings

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Bowen, Ezra

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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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

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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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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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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

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Austen, Jane

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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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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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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bodie, Walford

41.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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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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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry