Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

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

Greeley, Horace

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Egan, Sir John

10.

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

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

16.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

17.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

27.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

Juvenal

41.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Mike Tatum

44.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

50.

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