Motivational Quotes

Money

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

- William Cobbett

Best Quotes about Money

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

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Sir Thomas More

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

10.

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

11.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

12.

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

Earle, Bill

13.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

16.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

18.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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

20.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

21.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

25.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

27.

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

28.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

29.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

30.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

31.

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

Ernest Haskins

32.

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

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

35.

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

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

41.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

42.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

43.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

44.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Japanese

48.

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

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx