Motivational Quotes

Money

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

- Clason, George S.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clark, Frank A.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Earle, Bill

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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

Luther, Martin

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Waitley, Denis

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Evan Esar

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Barrymore, John

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

Carson, Johnny

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Traub, Marvin

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Orben, Robert

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

Buffett, Warren

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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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 is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

40.

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

France, Anatole

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

Ford, Henry

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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