Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Money

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Fields, W. C.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Clason, George S.

11.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Youngman, Henny

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Lemmon, Jack

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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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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.

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Jackson, Glenda

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

36.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Branson, Richard

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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.