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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

15.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Stuart

18.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Collier, Robert

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

22.

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

Jackie Mason

23.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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

27.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

29.

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

G. K. Chesterton

30.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Ney, Richard

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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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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 money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

39.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

40.

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

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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.

42.

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

43.

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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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch