Motivational Quotes

Money

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Money

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Blotnick, Srully

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Twain, Mark

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

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

14.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

Starr, Roger

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

17.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

19.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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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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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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 safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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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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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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

31.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

32.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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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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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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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Alexander, Scott

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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

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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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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Adams, Joey

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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

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen