Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Money

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

Bible

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Kin Hubbard

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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

Williams, Tennessee

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

10.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

11.

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

G. K. Chesterton

12.

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

Witkin, Georgia

13.

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

Bodie, Walford

14.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

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

Starr, Roger

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

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

19.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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.

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

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.

24.

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

Collier, Robert

25.

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

Fulghum, Robert

26.

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

Milligan, Spike

27.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

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

29.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

30.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

31.

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

32.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

France, Anatole

37.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

40.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

41.

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

Ward, Artemus

42.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

43.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

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.

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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.

47.

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

48.

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

Ovid

49.

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

Williams, Les

50.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.