Motivational Quotes

Money

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

- Samuel Butler

Best Quotes about Money

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Leo Rosten

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

Donald Trump

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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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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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Orben, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Collier, Robert

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

31.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Earle, Bill

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.