Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

11.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

12.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Sir Thomas More

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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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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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Jewish

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

39.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Henry Fielding

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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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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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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.

48.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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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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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