Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Karbo, Joe

Best Quotes about Money

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.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Clark, Frank A.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Adams, Joey

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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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

21.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Williams, Tennessee

24.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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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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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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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Clason, George S.

33.

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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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

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.