Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ken Hakuta

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

11.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bible

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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 is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Egan, Sir John

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Sophocles

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