Motivational Quotes

Money

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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Best Quotes about Money

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ruskin, John

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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

Williams, Les

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

27.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Starr, Roger

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

33.

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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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

35.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

39.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

40.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

42.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Egan, Sir John

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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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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.