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

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

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Einstein, Albert

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

10.

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

Quant, Mary

11.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

12.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

14.

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

Earle, Bill

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

Clark, Frank A.

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Phillips, Michael

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

e e cummings

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

31.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

32.

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

33.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Collier, Robert

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Benjamin Franklin

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.