Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Milligan, Spike

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Mike Tatum

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

Starr, Roger

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Greeley, Horace

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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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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

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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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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

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Getty, J. Paul

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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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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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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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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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 rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lynn Johnston

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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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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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Chanel, Coco

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond