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

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

11.

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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

13.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Quant, Mary

19.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Wilde, Stuart

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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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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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

35.

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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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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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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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

50.

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