Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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.

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Luther, Martin

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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 darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Ward, Artemus

16.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

17.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

18.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

32.

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

Youngman, Henny

33.

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

Evan Esar

34.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Quant, Mary

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

39.

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

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fields, W. C.

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

45.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Witkin, Georgia