Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Wilde, Stuart

Best Quotes about Money

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Evan Esar

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

Bible

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

31.

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

Edith Wharton

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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 art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

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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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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford