Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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 won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Edith Wharton

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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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 is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

29.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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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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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Earle, Bill

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Collier, Robert

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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 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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord