Motivational Quotes

Money

Never spend your money before you have it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Best Quotes about Money

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

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

Waitley, Denis

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Propertius, Sextus

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

10.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

11.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

12.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

16.

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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Groucho Marx

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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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.

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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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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

26.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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

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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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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry