Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Milligan, Spike

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

Lucilius, Gaius

13.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Ken Hakuta

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Sophocles

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wilson, Earl

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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

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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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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.