Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Chandler, Raymond

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

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

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

Horace

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Groucho Marx

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

Seneca

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Collier, Robert

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

33.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sophocles

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

Juvenal

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

Starr, Roger

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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