Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

e e cummings

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Collier, Robert

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.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

10.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

13.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

14.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

16.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

17.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Twain, Mark

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lucian

25.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

26.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

31.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

32.

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

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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

34.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

36.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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

39.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

40.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

41.

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

Austen, Jane

42.

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

43.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

44.

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

Bumper Sticker

45.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.