Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Money

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lewis, Joe E.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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

Sophocles

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.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clark, Frank A.

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 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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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Clark, Frank A.

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

France, Anatole

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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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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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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 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

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lynn Johnston

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Lennon, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Groucho Marx

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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