Motivational Quotes

Money

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

- Horace

Best Quotes about Money

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

Rebecca Johnson

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.

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

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

Davenport, Rita

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

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Orben, Robert

11.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

France, Anatole

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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

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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

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Buffett, Warren

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

24.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Evan Esar

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

Karbo, Joe

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Spader, James

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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 habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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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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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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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Sophocles

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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 a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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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