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QUOTES To Inspire You About Money Making

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By Iloabuchi Benedict NnakeePublished 2 years ago 6 min read
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1. A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark

2. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw

3. Intoxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest

4. “What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.” –Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) Wall Street

5. “You fool! You’re 30 cents away from having a quarter!” –Sweet Dick Willie (Robin Harris)Do the Right Thing

6. “The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people” – Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) Trading Places

7. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” –Tony Montana (Al Pacino) Scarface

8. “Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow.” – Carl Fox (Martin Sheen)Wall Street

9. “The rich. You know why they’re so odd? Because they can afford to be.” –Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl)Batman

10. “A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” — Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) Wall Street

11. “Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.”- James Arthur Baldwin

12. “Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”— Will Rogers

13. “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” Willie Sutton.

14. “The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.” Peter Ustinov.

15. “My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil.” JP Getty.

16. “I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.”Francois Rebelais

17. “I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.” Douglas Adams.

18. “They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.” Joseph Addison.

19. “October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to invest in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” Mark Twain

20. “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” Spike Milligan.

21. “You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.”Josh Billings

22. “Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die.” Max Asnas.

23. “Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.”Taylor Meade

24. “What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.”Henry Youngman

25. “We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.”Keith Davis.

26. “If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” JP Getty.

27“Money isn’t everything, but it’s a long way ahead of what comes next.” Edmund Stockdale

28. “To make a million, start with $900,000.” Morton Shulman.

29. “If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.” Errol Flynn

30. “A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.”Franklin Jones.

31. “There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.” -Spencer Tracy quotes

32. “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” -Jackie Mason

33. “When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.”-Nick Arnette

34. “Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won’t be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did.” -Henny Youngman

35. “If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.” -Lane Kirkland

36. “Carpe per diem – seize the check.” – Robin Williams

37. “Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet” — Robin Williams

38. “It’s money. I remember it from when I was single” — Billy Crystal

39. “There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage” — James Holt McGavran

40. “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died” — Malcolm Forbes

41. “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit” — George Carlin

42. “I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed” — George Carlin

43. “Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.” — Steven Wright

44. “I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can’t get killed by a blank?” — Milton Berle

45. “It’s amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!” — Milton Berle

46. “If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.” — Katherine Hepburn

47. “A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be” — unknown

48. “What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin” –Mark Twain

49. “Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.” — Bill Vaughn

50. “I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” — Shaquille O’Neal

51. “It’s easy to meet expenses – everywhere we go, there they are.” — Anonymous

52. “Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.” — Satchel Paige

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