Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

14.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

15.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Quant, Mary

18.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

19.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

20.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.

26.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

31.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Henry Fielding

33.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

34.

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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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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

40.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carson, Johnny

42.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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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

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.