Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Williams, Les

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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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

11.

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

Henry Fielding

12.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

18.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Evan Esar

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Earle, Bill

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

27.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

28.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

Vaughan, Bill

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

33.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

34.

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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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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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Wilde, Stuart

40.

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

Plutarch

41.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Blotnick, Srully