Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Money

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Plato

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

Waitley, Denis

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

10.

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

Clark, Frank A.

11.

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

Juvenal

12.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

13.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

14.

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

Themistocles

15.

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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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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

20.

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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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

23.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

24.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

26.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

27.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

28.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

29.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Bible

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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

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

37.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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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.

44.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

46.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

47.

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

Lemmon, Jack

48.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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