Motivational Quotes

Money

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

- Tertullian

Best Quotes about Money

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Sophocles

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Asnas, Max

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

Bible

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Henry Fielding

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Horace

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Wilson, Earl

29.

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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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Collier, Robert

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Sir Thomas More

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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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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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Orben, Robert

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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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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb