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

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Twain, Mark

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Milligan, Spike

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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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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Jackie Mason

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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 is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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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.

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.