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

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Alexander, Scott

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

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Themistocles

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Plutarch

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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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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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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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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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Williams, Les

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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

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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Sir Thomas More

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.