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

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Plutarch

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

12.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

13.

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

e e cummings

14.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

15.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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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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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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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

24.

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

25.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

26.

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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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

28.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

31.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

32.

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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Lynn Johnston

35.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Youngman, Henny

37.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

38.

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

Edith Wharton

40.

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Buffett, Warren

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

43.

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

Vaughan, Bill

44.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

45.

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

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.