Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Money

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Clark, Frank A.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

12.

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

Collier, Robert

13.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

15.

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

16.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

17.

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

Orben, Robert

18.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

19.

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

Rolland, Romain

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

Plato

26.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

27.

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

28.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

29.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

32.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

33.

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

34.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

39.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

40.

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

Sophocles

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

42.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

43.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

44.

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

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

49.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

50.

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

Getty, J. Paul