Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Money

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Plutarch

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Waitley, Denis

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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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

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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

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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 couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Carson, Johnny

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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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.