Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Money

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

10.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

13.

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

Collier, Robert

14.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Jonathan Swift

18.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

19.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

21.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

22.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

23.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

24.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Ernest Haskins

27.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

28.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

30.

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

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

33.

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

Juvenal

34.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Lennon, John

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

Mike Tatum

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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

44.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Plutarch

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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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