Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

- Murchison, Jr., Clint

Best Quotes about Money

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

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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

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

Ward, Artemus

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

11.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

12.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

15.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

16.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

20.

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 is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

25.

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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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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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

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

30.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

31.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

34.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

35.

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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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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

43.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

44.

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

Jane Austen

45.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

46.

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

Plutarch

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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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

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert