Motivational Quotes

Money

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Money

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Quant, Mary

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.

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

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.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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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

33.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Egan, Sir John

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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