Motivational Quotes

Money

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ernest Haskins

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Sir Thomas More

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

11.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

12.

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 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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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.

15.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Ken Hakuta

17.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

18.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

19.

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

Getty, J. Paul

20.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

23.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

24.

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

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

31.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

Asnas, Max

34.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

35.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Horace

46.

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

Milligan, Spike

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

49.

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

50.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish