Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Money

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Karbo, Joe

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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

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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

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

e e cummings

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Orben, Robert

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Juvenal

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

Branson, Richard

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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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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

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

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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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.

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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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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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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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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Ruskin, John