Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

- Murchison, Jr., Clint

Best Quotes about Money

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Greeley, Horace

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

10.

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

G. K. Chesterton

11.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

12.

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

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

15.

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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 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

21.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

22.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

23.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

24.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

25.

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

26.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Egan, Sir John

35.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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 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.

38.

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

39.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

40.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

44.

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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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