Motivational Quotes

Money

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Ken Hakuta

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Earle, Bill

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

Fields, W. C.

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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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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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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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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

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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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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

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

Lynn Johnston

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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.

Bacon, Francis

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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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.

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Waitley, Denis

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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