Motivational Quotes

Money

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

- Bird, Larry

Best Quotes about Money

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Japanese

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Jonathan Swift

13.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

14.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

16.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

17.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

18.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

19.

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

Juvenal

20.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

21.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

22.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

23.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

24.

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

25.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

26.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

27.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

28.

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

29.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Ken Hakuta

31.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

33.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

34.

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

Phillips, Michael

35.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

38.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

43.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

44.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

46.

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

Clark, Frank A.

47.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

48.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

49.

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

50.

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.