Motivational Quotes

Money

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

- William Cobbett

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Bible

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Rohn, Jim

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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

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

Ford, Henry

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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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

11.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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William Cobbett

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Ovid

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

25.

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.

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

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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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Brown, Les

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lennon, John

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

Davenport, Rita

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

42.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

43.

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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Voltaire

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Blotnick, Srully

49.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic