Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Money

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bodie, Walford

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

Greeley, Horace

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

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

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Earle, Bill

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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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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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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

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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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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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Monroe, Marilyn

32.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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

Johnson, Ben

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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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 poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Clason, George S.

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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