Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Mike Tatum

Best Quotes about Money

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Buffett, Warren

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Getty, J. Paul

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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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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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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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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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Fields, W. C.

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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.