Motivational Quotes

Money

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

- Robert W. Sarnoff

Best Quotes about Money

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

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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.

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

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

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

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

10.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Plutarch

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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Brown, Les

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

23.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Ward, Artemus

29.

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

Getty, J. Paul

30.

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

Henry Fielding

31.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

32.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

33.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

40.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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 day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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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

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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