Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ken Hakuta

Best Quotes about Money

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Collier, Robert

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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

Jane Austen

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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 has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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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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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Milligan, Spike

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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 is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Asnas, Max

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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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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Orben, Robert

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic