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

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

10.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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.

12.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

15.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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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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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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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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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

20.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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

23.

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

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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

Quant, Mary

28.

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

Lynn Johnston

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

Ernest Haskins

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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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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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

41.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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

45.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Wilde, Stuart

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques