Motivational Quotes

Money

The only wealth is life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

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

Jane Austen

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Edith Wharton

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

Luther, Martin

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Evan Esar

10.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

15.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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

18.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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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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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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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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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Rohn, Jim

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

30.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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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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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

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

Ovid

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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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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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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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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.