Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Proverb, Yiddish

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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.

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

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Jonathan Swift

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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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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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Bible

33.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lynn Johnston

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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