Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

11.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

12.

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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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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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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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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

18.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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.

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

Juvenal

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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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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

23.

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

Bible

24.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

32.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Collier, Robert

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

39.

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

Quant, Mary

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

45.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De