Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

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

Bowen, Ezra

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

11.

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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Edith Wharton

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Christina Stead

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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 evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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

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

Seneca

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jane Austen

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Earle, Bill

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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