Motivational Quotes

Money

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Money

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Sir Thomas More

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

15.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

18.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

19.

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

Ken Hakuta

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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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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

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

23.

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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

30.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

31.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

35.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

38.

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

Evan Esar

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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.