Motivational Quotes

Money

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

- Ken Hakuta

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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

11.

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

Burgess, Anthony

12.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Fulghum, Robert

15.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Bumper Sticker

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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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

20.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

21.

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

22.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

23.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

27.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

28.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Getty, J. Paul

30.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

31.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

33.

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

France, Anatole

34.

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

Themistocles

35.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

37.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

38.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

45.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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

47.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens