Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Witkin, Georgia

Best Quotes about Money

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Earle, Bill

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

Graham, Billy

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Waitley, Denis