Motivational Quotes

Money

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Blotnick, Srully

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Brown, Hobart

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

15.

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

Kin Hubbard

16.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

19.

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

Phillips, Michael

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Barrymore, John

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

28.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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

Quant, Mary

30.

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

Lemmon, Jack

31.

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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Getty, J. Paul

35.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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 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

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.