Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

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

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Williams, Les

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

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

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

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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

12.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

31.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

34.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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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.

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

38.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Asnas, Max

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

45.

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

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin