Motivational Quotes

Money

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Money

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Plato

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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 a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

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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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Voltaire

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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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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

21.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quant, Mary

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Austen, Jane

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Johnson, Ben

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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Juvenal

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.