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

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

10.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

11.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lynn Johnston

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

26.

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

Karbo, Joe

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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 really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Rebecca Johnson

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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

Greeley, Horace

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.