Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Monroe, Marilyn

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Quant, Mary

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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

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

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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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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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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

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Alexander, Scott

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Rohn, Jim

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Davenport, Rita

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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