Motivational Quotes

Money

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Waitley, Denis

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Ford, Henry

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Collier, Robert

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Brown, Les

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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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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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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

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

Lynn Johnston

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, 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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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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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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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

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