Motivational Quotes

Money

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

- April Foiles

Best Quotes about Money

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Waitley, Denis

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lynn Johnston

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Brown, Les

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Youngman, Henny

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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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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Clason, George S.

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe