Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Money

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Evan Esar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Collier, Robert

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Benjamin Franklin

18.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Clark, Frank A.

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

24.

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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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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

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

32.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

33.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

35.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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