Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Sir Thomas More

10.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

17.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

18.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Austen, Jane

20.

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 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

22.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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.

24.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

26.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

28.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

30.

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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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

32.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

33.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Hebrew

37.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

39.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

43.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

44.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

45.

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

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Ford, Henry

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

49.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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

France, Anatole