Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Money

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

O'Malley, Austin

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.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plutarch

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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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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Austen, Jane

15.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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 way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Collier, Robert

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Themistocles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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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

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

Jackie Mason

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Belloc, Hilaire