Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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 that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Donald Trump

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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

Sir Henry Taylor

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Egan, Sir John

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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

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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 alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Plutarch

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Graham, Billy

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

Quant, Mary

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

Clason, George S.

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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

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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.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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.