Motivational Quotes

Money

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

- Quant, Mary

Best Quotes about Money

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lynn Johnston

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

G. K. Chesterton

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Vaughan, Bill

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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.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Spader, James

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sir Thomas More

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Alexander, Scott

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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