Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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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

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

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.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Spader, James

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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

Youngman, Henny

12.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ruskin, John

19.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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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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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

25.

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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

29.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Collier, Robert

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Phillips, Michael

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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

Bible

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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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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

44.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

45.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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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

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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