Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Money

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

Collier, Robert

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Getty, J. Paul

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Karbo, Joe

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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 best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Henry Fielding

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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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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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Donald Trump

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert