Motivational Quotes

Money

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Money

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

Proverb, Yiddish

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Collier, Robert

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Austen, Jane

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Karbo, Joe

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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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

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Branson, Richard

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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