Motivational Quotes

Money

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Money

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

Lynn Johnston

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Ney, Richard

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

Collier, Robert

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Barrymore, John

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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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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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 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

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Starr, Roger

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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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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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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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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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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Egan, Sir John

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.