Quotes on Money
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Peter Cooper
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers
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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Edgar Watson Howe
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
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A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it.
James Moffatt
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis
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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
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I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
J. Paul Getty
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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; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
George Clason
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Entrusting the government or an employer, other than yourself, with your retirement income is like hiring a compulsive gambler as your accountant.
Denis Waitley
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Truth is, money doesn’t make you happy or a nice person, it just means you have the means to live the life you want. What kind of life is up to you, and that’s where some people crash and burn. They get money but they don’t have a clue about being a good person so they just make themselves and everyone around them miserable.
Phil Town
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We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your money a dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures. You can't buy much of value a dollar at a time.
Jim Rohn
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca
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Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening: those which, when shared, multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which, when divided, are diminished.
William Danforth
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When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.
Anonymous
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Pay your taxes first, yourself second, and everyone else after that.
Larry Winget
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Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.
Larry Winget
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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You can do pretty dumb things when you've got a big checkbook.
Warren Buffett
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For the most part, income is a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity.
Walter E. Williams
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If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
Chilo
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Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Napoleon Hill
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A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
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A man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.
George Clason
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The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must 'earn' money. This is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing or a free ride to fail in life. The only way to earn money is by providing people with services or products which are needed and useful.
Earl Nightingale
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Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.
Stephen Covey
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Money, to some extent, sometimes lets you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
Warren Buffett
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A heart filled with love will do more for you than a wallet filled with cash.
Steve Pavlina
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Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.
Timothy Ferriss
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"If only I had more money" is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
Timothy Ferriss
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The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
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You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse.
Bob Proctor
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If broke people are making fun of your financial plan, you’re on track.
Dave Ramsey
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.
James Garfield
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If someone goes through life and measures themselves solely by how much money they have, or how much money they earned last year, sooner or later they're going to end up in trouble.
Warren Buffett
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Decide on a way of life and then earn the money to finance it – don’t do it the other way around.
Fred Smith
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Katherine Whitehorn
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If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
Charlie Munger
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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
Charlie Munger
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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.
Ayn Rand
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Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.
Bertrand Russell
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It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.
Suze Orman
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You must first ask "What is the purpose of my life?" before asking "What is the purpose of my money?" Once the first question is answered, you have thus answered the second. Making your money a tool for life, and not making your life a tool for money, is a choice.
Kent Thune
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The problem with making money your God is you have to save it before it can save you.
Craig Sanford
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Money ought never to be the consideration in marriage, but it always ought to be a consideration. When a boy and a girl don't think enough about money before the ceremony, they're going to have to think altogether too much about it after; and when a man's doing sums at home evenings, it comes kind of awkward for him to try to hold his wife on his lap.
George Horace Lorimer
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Once you can take care of yourself and your family and everything you need, beyond that it's [wealth] a bunch of claim checks. If you think about money, it's a claim check on other people's products and services. When you've got enough to take care of yourself, more claim checks don’t do you any good. But they can do a lot of good for all kinds of other people.
Warren Buffett
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The happiest people I know are those who give away their money. The saddest are those who hold their possessions in their hearts instead of their hands, or who hoard because they fear what the future may bring.
Truett Cathy
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Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
Tim O'Reilly
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[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Richard Feynman
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
Richard Feynman
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Nothing can take the place of money in the area in which money works.
Earl Nightingale
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There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
Ray Dalio
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I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money and what it's like to have a lot of it. I'm lucky because people make such a big deal of it and, if I didn't experience both, I wouldn't be able to know how important it really is for me. I can't comment on what having a lot of money means to others, but I do know that for me, having a lot more money isn't a lot better than having enough to cover the basics. That's because, for me, the best things in life — meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures — are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.
Ray Dalio
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If a person's scale of values is based primarily on material wealth, that person will be in difficulty all of his or her life. Do not pay much attention to fame, power and money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.
Rudyard Kipling
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