Motivational Quotes

Money

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

- Riccoboni, Mme.

Best Quotes about Money

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

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.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Lynn Johnston

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

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

France, Anatole

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Henry Fielding

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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

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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Juvenal

32.

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

33.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Sophocles

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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.

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard