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

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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.

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

10.

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.

11.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

12.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

18.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

21.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

24.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

25.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

27.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

28.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

30.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

31.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

32.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

33.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

34.

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

35.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

36.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

37.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

38.

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

39.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

40.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

44.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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The world is his who has money to go over it.