Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is good, love is wealth.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Money

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

10.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

15.

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

16.

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

Seneca

17.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

18.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

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

Quant, Mary

20.

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

21.

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

Collier, Robert

22.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

27.

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

28.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

31.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

32.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

33.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

35.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

37.

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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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

39.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Earle, Bill

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

Plato

43.

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

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

Bumper Sticker

45.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

49.

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

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul