Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Money

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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.

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

Ford, Henry

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Youngman, Henny

13.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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

16.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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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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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lennon, John

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Lynn Johnston

34.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Jonathan Swift

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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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

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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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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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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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