Motivational Quotes

Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Money

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

11.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Edith Wharton

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Juvenal

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Proverb, Japanese

29.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

30.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Sir Thomas More

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Jackie Mason

35.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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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.

37.

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

Evan Esar

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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

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

Lucian

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Benjamin Franklin

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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