Motivational Quotes

Money

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Money

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

e e cummings

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Bodie, Walford

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sophocles

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

Jackie Mason

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

Orben, Robert

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Rohn, Jim

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

31.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Milligan, Spike

34.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Collier, Robert

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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