Motivational Quotes

Money

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Money

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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.

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Ernest Haskins

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Rebecca Johnson

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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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

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift