Motivational Quotes

Money

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

- Williams, Les

Best Quotes about Money

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

Proverb, Japanese

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Plutarch

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

12.

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.

13.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

14.

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

Phillips, Michael

15.

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

Witkin, Georgia

16.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

19.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

20.

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

21.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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

23.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

24.

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

25.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

28.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

29.

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

Bowen, Ezra

30.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

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

Evan Esar

32.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

36.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

38.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

41.

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

Edith Wharton

42.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

43.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

44.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

45.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

46.

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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.