Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Money

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Sir Thomas More

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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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.

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

Groucho Marx

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Ward, Artemus

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

Ford, Henry

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Lennon, John

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

Leo Rosten

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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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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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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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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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