Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

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

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

21.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Bowen, Ezra

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Austen, Jane

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Witkin, Georgia

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