Motivational Quotes

Money

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

- William Cobbett

Best Quotes about Money

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Carson, Johnny

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Starr, Roger

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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

11.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

12.

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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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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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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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Brown, Les

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Fielding, Henry

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

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

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Earle, Bill

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully