Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

11.

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

Sir Thomas More

12.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

16.

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

Themistocles

17.

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

Orben, Robert

18.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

24.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

34.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

35.

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

Donald Trump

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

37.

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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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Jonathan Swift

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

44.

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

Alexander, Scott

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

47.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

49.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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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