Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Sir Thomas More

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Blotnick, Srully

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Davenport, Rita

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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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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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Egan, Sir John

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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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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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 doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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