Motivational Quotes

Money

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Leo Rosten

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

Propertius, Sextus

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Jonathan Swift

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Plutarch

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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 doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Witkin, Georgia

25.

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

Rolland, Romain

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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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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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

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

Bible

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

O'Malley, Austin

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Groucho Marx

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

Kin Hubbard

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward