Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Money

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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

Fielding, Henry

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

10.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

12.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Ney, Richard

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

Leo Rosten

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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 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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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Luther, Martin

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Buffett, Warren

29.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sophocles

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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

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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