Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jonathan Swift

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

10.

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

Orben, Robert

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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 rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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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 couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

21.

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

Ken Hakuta

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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

Horace

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 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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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Seneca

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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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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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.