Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Best Quotes about Money

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Clark, Frank A.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

12.

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

Earle, Bill

13.

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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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.

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

Chanel, Coco

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Starr, Roger

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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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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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

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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

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Phillips, Michael

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Spader, James

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

Propertius, Sextus

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

49.

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

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

Carson, Johnny