Motivational Quotes

Money

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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Best Quotes about Money

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

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Ben

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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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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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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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 haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Ford, Henry

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Plutarch

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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

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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Youngman, Henny

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda