Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

10.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

11.

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

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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

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Fields, W. C.

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

20.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

24.

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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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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

31.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

32.

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Sophocles

34.

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

G. K. Chesterton

35.

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

Lynn Johnston

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

38.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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

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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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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

45.

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

Austen, Jane

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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.

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

48.

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

Seneca

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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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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh