Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Money

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Benjamin Franklin

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Williams, Les

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

10.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Davenport, Rita

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

e e cummings

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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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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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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Quant, Mary

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Johnson, Ben

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Earle, Bill

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Fields, W. C.

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]