Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

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

Evan Esar

10.

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

Sir Thomas More

11.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

12.

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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Ken Hakuta

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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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 makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

33.

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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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

Buffett, Warren

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Proverb, Japanese

40.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

42.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul