Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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Best Quotes about Money

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Hebrew

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

e e cummings

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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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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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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Ney, Richard

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

Egan, Sir John

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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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 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

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie