Motivational Quotes

Money

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Money

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

Plutarch

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

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Chandler, Raymond

10.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

11.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

15.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

16.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

17.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Horace

19.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

22.

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

23.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

24.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

25.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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 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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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

30.

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

Bowen, Ezra

31.

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

Williams, Tennessee

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leo Rosten

41.

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

42.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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