Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Money

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Donald Trump

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Getty, J. Paul

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Rebecca Johnson

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

Williams, Tennessee

10.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Henry Fielding

12.

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

13.

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

Getty, J. Paul

14.

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

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

16.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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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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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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

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

Juvenal

22.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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 money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Quant, Mary

27.

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.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Benjamin Franklin

30.

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

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

35.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

40.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

41.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

45.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Davenport, Rita

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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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