Motivational Quotes

Money

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Traub, Marvin

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Proverb, Jewish

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Quant, Mary

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

Leo Rosten

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Asnas, Max

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Rohn, Jim

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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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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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 who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Evan Esar

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

Seneca