Motivational Quotes

Money

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

2.

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

Bumper Sticker

3.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

4.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

5.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

6.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

7.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

8.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

9.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

10.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

11.

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

France, Anatole

12.

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

Phillips, Michael

13.

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

14.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

15.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Groucho Marx

18.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

19.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

20.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Chandler, Raymond

22.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

23.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

24.

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

Sir Thomas More

25.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

26.

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.

27.

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

Jonathan Swift

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

35.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

38.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

40.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Brown, Hobart

43.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

45.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

Rebecca Johnson

47.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

48.

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

49.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

50.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus