Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner

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

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

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

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

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Sophocles

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham (

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen

Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain

People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Michael Flatley

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison,

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Ellen Metcalf

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur (

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
Richard M. Nixon

wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon