Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Money

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

Henry Fielding

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Sir Thomas More

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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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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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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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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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Spader, James

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

31.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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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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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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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Jonathan Swift

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

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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

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

45.

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

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Rohn, Jim