Motivational Quotes

Money

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Money

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Starr, Roger

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Asnas, Max

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

Davenport, Rita

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Quant, Mary

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Bible

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Milligan, Spike

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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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