Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Fulghum, Robert

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Spader, James

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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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

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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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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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.

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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 talks and often just says, Good Bye.

49.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Rolland, Romain