Motivational Quotes

Money

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

- Binger, William

Best Quotes about Money

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

10.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

13.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

15.

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.

16.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

17.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

19.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

20.

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

21.

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

Ford, Henry

22.

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.

23.

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

Bible

24.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

25.

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

26.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

28.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

33.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

34.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

35.

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

Witkin, Georgia

36.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

37.

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

38.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

Brown, Hobart

41.

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

Henry Fielding

42.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

43.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

45.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

46.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

47.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

48.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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