Motivational Quotes

Money

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

- Themistocles

Best Quotes about Money

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Quant, Mary

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

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

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Phillips, Michael

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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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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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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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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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Jonathan Swift

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Egan, Sir John

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Voltaire

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ruskin, John

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully