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

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.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fields, W. C.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Williams, Les

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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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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

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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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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Waitley, Denis

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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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

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim