Motivational Quotes

Money

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Money

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Traub, Marvin

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

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

Sir Henry Taylor

10.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

11.

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

Collier, Robert

13.

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

Blotnick, Srully

14.

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

Mike Tatum

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Themistocles

18.

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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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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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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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Milligan, Spike

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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 best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

28.

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

Jackie Mason

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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 can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

32.

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 won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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.

38.

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

Asnas, Max

39.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

40.

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

Chanel, Coco

41.

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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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

45.

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.

46.

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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.

48.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen