Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Wilde, Stuart

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Kin Hubbard

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

12.

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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Asnas, Max

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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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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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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Milligan, Spike

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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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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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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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

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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