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

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

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

Starr, Roger

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Spader, James

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

16.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

21.

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

Bible

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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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

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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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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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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Egan, Sir John

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

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