Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

14.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

17.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

19.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Japanese

22.

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

Bible

23.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

24.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

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

26.

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

Phillips, Michael

27.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

28.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

29.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

30.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

31.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

33.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

35.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

36.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

37.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

38.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

39.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

42.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

43.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

45.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

46.

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

Getty, J. Paul

47.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

48.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

49.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

50.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug