Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

14.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

15.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

17.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

23.

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

Orben, Robert

24.

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

26.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

31.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

32.

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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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.

34.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Karbo, Joe

37.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

39.

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

Witkin, Georgia

40.

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Edith Wharton

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Juvenal

49.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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.