Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Jackson, Glenda

2.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

3.

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

O'Malley, Austin

4.

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

5.

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

Brown, Hobart

6.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

8.

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

9.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

10.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

11.

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

Propertius, Sextus

12.

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

Jonathan Swift

13.

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

Phillips, Michael

14.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

16.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

19.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

20.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

21.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

22.

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

Barrymore, John

23.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

25.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

26.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

31.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

32.

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

Lucian

33.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

34.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

35.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

36.

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

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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.

38.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

39.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

Getty, J. Paul

42.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

43.

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

Wilde, Stuart

44.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

45.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

47.

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

48.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

49.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

50.

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

Lynn Johnston

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