Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Money

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

e e cummings

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

Williams, Les

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

Lemmon, Jack

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Egan, Sir John

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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.

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

Sophocles

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

Barrymore, John

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

Ney, Richard

18.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

Brown, Hobart

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

37.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Earle, Bill

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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.