Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Getty, J. Paul

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

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

Fulghum, Robert

11.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

12.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

13.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

14.

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

Jackie Mason

15.

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

Spader, James

16.

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

Ken Hakuta

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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.

20.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Williams, Tennessee

24.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

25.

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

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

28.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

29.

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

30.

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

Groucho Marx

31.

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

32.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Clark, Frank A.

36.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

37.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

38.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

41.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

42.

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

France, Anatole

43.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

44.

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

Austen, Jane