Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ward, Artemus

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

Mike Tatum

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

11.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Earle, Bill

14.

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

Getty, J. Paul

15.

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

France, Anatole

16.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

20.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

21.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

22.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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

24.

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

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Sophocles

27.

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

28.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

29.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

31.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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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.

33.

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

34.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

37.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

Benjamin Franklin

39.

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

40.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

44.

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

Graham, Billy

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

46.

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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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

48.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

49.

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

Themistocles

50.

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