Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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Best Quotes about Money

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Ford, Henry

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Voltaire

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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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

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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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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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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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Jonathan Swift

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Japanese

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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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

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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.