Motivational Quotes

Money

Money often costs too much.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jackie Mason

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Brown, Hobart

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

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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

Clark, Frank A.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

10.

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

11.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

12.

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

Johnson, Ben

13.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

France, Anatole

21.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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.

23.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

24.

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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

26.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Collier, Robert

28.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

29.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Alexander, Scott

33.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

34.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

Edith Wharton

36.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

37.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

38.

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.

39.

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

Quant, Mary

40.

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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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

42.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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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

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

48.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

50.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish