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

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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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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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phillips, Michael

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Quant, Mary

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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.

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Egan, Sir John

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Swift, Jonathan

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Lucian

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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.