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

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Graham, Billy

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

W. Somerset Maugham

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

11.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

18.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Plato

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

25.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

26.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

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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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

29.

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

Getty, J. Paul

30.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

31.

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.

32.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Williams, Les

38.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

39.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

40.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

41.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

42.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Barrymore, John

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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 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.