Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Best Quotes about Money

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

Hill, Napoleon

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Brown, Hobart

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

Jonathan Swift

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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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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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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

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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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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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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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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Williams, Les

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

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

Egan, Sir John

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Fielding, Henry

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish