Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Quant, Mary

Best Quotes about Money

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.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Henry Fielding

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

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb, Japanese

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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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.

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Starr, Roger

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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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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Luther, Martin

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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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.