Motivational Quotes

Money

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

- Burgess, Anthony

Best Quotes about Money

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

Collier, Robert

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

Ovid

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

14.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

Greeley, Horace

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Quant, Mary

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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 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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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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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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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.

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin