Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

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.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

France, Anatole

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

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

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

10.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

11.

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

Propertius, Sextus

12.

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

Phillips, Michael

13.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

14.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

15.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

16.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

17.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

18.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

19.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

20.

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.

21.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

22.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

26.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

28.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

29.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

30.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

32.

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.

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Williams, Tennessee

35.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jackson, Glenda

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

39.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

42.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

44.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

45.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

46.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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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