Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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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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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Rolland, Romain

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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

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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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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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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

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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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.

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

Johnson, Ben

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Earle, Bill

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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