Motivational Quotes

Money

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

- Mike Tatum

Best Quotes about Money

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

e e cummings

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

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Edith Wharton

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

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

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Brown, Les

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

Williams, Les

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

Collier, Robert

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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 speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Fields, W. C.

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

Rolland, Romain

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Johnson, Ben

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Plutarch

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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

Leo Rosten

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Asnas, Max

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg