Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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Best Quotes about Money

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

Brown, Les

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

11.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Spader, James