Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Money

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

Swift, Jonathan

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

11.

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

12.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

13.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

14.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

19.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

20.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

23.

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

Witkin, Georgia

24.

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

25.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

26.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

31.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

32.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Bible

37.

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

Quant, Mary

38.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

39.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

43.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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

Sophocles

45.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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

48.

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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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

50.

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

Milligan, Spike