Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Witkin, Georgia

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jackson, Glenda

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Milligan, Spike

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Youngman, Henny

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Alexander, Scott