Motivational Quotes

Money

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Money

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

O'Malley, Austin

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Ruskin, John

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

10.

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

11.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Lemmon, Jack

15.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

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

Bowen, Ezra

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

21.

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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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.

24.

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

25.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

30.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

31.

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

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

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

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

Witkin, Georgia

35.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

36.

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

Henry Fielding

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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.

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

43.

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

44.

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

Carson, Johnny

45.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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

Brown, Les

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

48.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

50.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.