Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Benjamin Franklin

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Adams, Joey

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

Williams, Les

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

11.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

12.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

13.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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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

15.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

17.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Lynn Johnston

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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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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

34.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Alexander, Scott

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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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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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