Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

- Murchison, Jr., Clint

Best Quotes about Money

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Youngman, Henny

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.

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

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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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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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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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Lynn Johnston

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

45.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert