Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jackie Mason

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

10.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

11.

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

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

14.

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

15.

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

e e cummings

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

18.

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

19.

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

Ruskin, John

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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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

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Bible

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

30.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

32.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

33.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

34.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

35.

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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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Milligan, Spike

41.

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

Asnas, Max

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.