Motivational Quotes

Money

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Carson, Johnny

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

10.

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

Juvenal

11.

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

12.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

13.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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

Austen, Jane

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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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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

17.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

18.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

19.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

20.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

22.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

23.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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

25.

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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

27.

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

Collier, Robert

28.

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

Jackie Mason

29.

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

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

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

Spader, James

32.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

33.

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.

34.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Milligan, Spike

40.

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

41.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

42.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

46.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

47.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

48.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

49.

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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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert