Motivational Quotes

Money

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Money

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Fielding, Henry

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

10.

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.

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

14.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Brown, Les

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ford, Henry

27.

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

Alexander, Scott

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

32.

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

Brown, Hobart

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

34.

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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Rebecca Johnson

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

Austen, Jane

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

Buffett, Warren

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta