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

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

Egan, Sir John

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

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Ruskin, John

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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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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 good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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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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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Davenport, Rita

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Barrymore, John

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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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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Evan Esar

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Alexander, Scott

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