Motivational Quotes

Money

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Fielding, Henry

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Getty, J. Paul

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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 rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fulghum, Robert

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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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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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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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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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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.