Motivational Quotes

Money

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Money

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Quant, Mary

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Alexander, Scott

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

10.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

11.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

12.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

15.

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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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

17.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

18.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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.

20.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

23.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

24.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Rolland, Romain

29.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Blotnick, Srully

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

33.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

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

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

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

Ney, Richard

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

42.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

43.

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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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

46.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.