Motivational Quotes

Money

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

- Mccracken, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Money

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

11.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

12.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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.

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Adams, Joey

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

Jane Austen

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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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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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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

40.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Fields, W. C.