Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Brown, Hobart

Best Quotes about Money

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

Chandler, Raymond

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Bible

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

Earle, Bill

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

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

Egan, Sir John

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Rebecca Johnson

11.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

12.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

13.

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

14.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

18.

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

19.

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

Mike Tatum

20.

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

Lynn Johnston

21.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

22.

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

23.

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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

25.

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

29.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

30.

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

Clark, Frank A.

31.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Collier, Robert

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

35.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ford, Henry

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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 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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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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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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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

44.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

45.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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 is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny