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

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Rohn, Jim

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Donald Trump

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Starr, Roger

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Earle, Bill

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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

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mike Tatum

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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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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Sir Thomas More

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Lennon, John

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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

47.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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