Motivational Quotes

Money

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Money

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

Juvenal

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

10.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

11.

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

Collier, Robert

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

14.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

18.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

19.

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.

20.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

21.

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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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Austen, Jane

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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Starr, Roger

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

32.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

33.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

35.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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