Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Proverb, Yiddish

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Adams, Joey

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

Collier, Robert

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

10.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

17.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Ward, Artemus

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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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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

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

Lucian

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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 you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

38.

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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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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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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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

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Quant, Mary

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Luther, Martin

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

50.

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