Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Ney, Richard

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

Williams, Les

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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.

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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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wilson, Earl

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Rolland, Romain

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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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 things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Rohn, Jim

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Ken Hakuta

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fields, W. C.

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Starr, Roger

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard