Motivational Quotes

Money

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Best Quotes about Money

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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

Orben, Robert

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Henry Fielding

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fulghum, Robert

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Plutarch

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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

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Collier, Robert

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ford, Henry

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Williams, Les

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Edith Wharton

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jonathan Swift

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Evan Esar

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony