Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

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

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

10.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

11.

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

Clark, Frank A.

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

15.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Leo Rosten

17.

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

Juvenal

18.

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

19.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

G. K. Chesterton

22.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

24.

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.

25.

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

Edith Wharton

26.

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

Adams, Joey

27.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

29.

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

Bowen, Ezra

30.

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

Quant, Mary

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

33.

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

Lucian

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Mike Tatum

36.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

37.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

38.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

39.

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

Orben, Robert

40.

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

Vaughan, Bill

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

45.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.