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

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

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

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Burgess, Anthony

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Alexander, Scott

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Earle, Bill

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bumper Sticker

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Milligan, Spike

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

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

Youngman, Henny

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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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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

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

Quant, Mary

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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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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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Ziglar, Zig