Zig Ziglar used to say that money isn’t everything, but it ranks right up there with oxygen. Money plays a very important role in our lives, and while it shouldn’t be our top priority, we should see it as a tool that allows us to bring joy into our lives. Whether through its absence or through an inability to generate it, we know one thing for certain: a lack of money brings problems.
Money is neither good nor bad. It depends on how it is used. Just as it can bring joy, it can bring destruction.
Some of the most amazing things ever achieved were made possible because the financial resources to fund them were there. Businesses, schools and charities have been built thanks to money. But wars have also been started and families destroyed because of it. So here are 27 inspiring quotes about money.
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The best quotes about money
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A fact that is very simple to understand and hard to apply: the time to save money is when we have money to save. – Joe Moore
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It is good to have money and all the things money can buy, but it is also good to check every now and then that we haven’t lost the things money can’t buy. – George Lorimer
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There is an enormous difference between having a lot of money and being rich. – Marlene Dietrich
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Money is generally attracted, not chased. – Jim Rohn
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Never spend your money before you have it. – Thomas Jefferson
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If we control our wealth, we are rich and free. If our wealth controls us, we are poor indeed. – Edmund Burke
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You don’t need to tell me what your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. – James W. Frick
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Many people don’t worry about their money until they have nearly run out of it. Others do the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you want to go, but it will not replace you as the driver. – Ayn Rand
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Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. – P. T. Barnum
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If you don’t take control of your money, the lack of it will control you forever. – Dave Ramsey
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The habit of saving is an education in itself: it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates a sense of order, trains us in foresight and broadens the mind. – T. T. Munger
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A wise person should keep money in their head, but never in their heart. – Jonathan Swift
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The fastest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket. – Will Rogers
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Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future. Even if we need nothing right now, money assures us the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises. – Aristotle
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The main mistake we make is spending money to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t even like. – Will Rogers
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The bad thing about money is that it sometimes forces you to do things you don’t really want to do. – Unknown
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Whoever thinks money does everything ends up doing anything for money. – Voltaire
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Money doesn’t bring happiness, but it produces a feeling so similar that it’s hard to tell the difference. – Groucho Marx
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The best things in life don’t cost money. The most precious resource we have is time. – Steve Jobs
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Every time you take out a loan, you are stealing money from your future. – Nathan W. Morris
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Wealth can be very relative: someone who has little and has more than they need is richer than someone who has more and still lacks things. – Charles Caleb Colton
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There is only one group in society that thinks about money more than the rich: the poor. – Oscar Wilde
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When I was young, I believed money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am older, I know for certain that it is. – Oscar Wilde
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A business that does nothing but make money is a bad business. – Richard Branson
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If money is an emotional issue for you, you have a problem. Nobody who is good at building houses has an emotional problem with hammers or bricks. – Seth Godin
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Never play games you don’t understand, even if you see lots of people making lots of money at them. – Charlie Munger
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