Motivational Quotes

Money

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Money

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Collier, Robert

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ford, Henry

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

11.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

12.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

13.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

14.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

15.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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

17.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

22.

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

Mike Tatum

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Juvenal

26.

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

Quant, Mary

27.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

28.

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

29.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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

32.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

33.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

34.

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

Jackie Mason

35.

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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

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

40.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Adams, Joey

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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