Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Burgess, Anthony

Best Quotes about Money

1.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

2.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

3.

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

4.

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

Rebecca Johnson

5.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

6.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

7.

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

Collier, Robert

8.

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

9.

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

Milligan, Spike

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

12.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

13.

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

14.

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

Edith Wharton

15.

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

16.

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

Alexander, Scott

17.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

18.

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

Plutarch

19.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

20.

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

Bodie, Walford

21.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

22.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

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

27.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

29.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

Collier, Robert

33.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

Jonathan Swift

37.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

38.

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

39.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

40.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

41.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

42.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.