Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Edith Wharton

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.

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

Leo Rosten

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

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

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.

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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

13.

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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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 is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Luther, Martin

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

Buffett, Warren

28.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lucian

41.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

45.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.