Motivational Quotes

Money

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Money

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sir Thomas More

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Austen, Jane

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

10.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

11.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jackson, Glenda

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

19.

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

Lemmon, Jack

20.

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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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 someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jonathan Swift

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

29.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Davenport, Rita

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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

37.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Karbo, Joe

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

43.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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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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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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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