Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Money

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Bodie, Walford

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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.

10.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Starr, Roger

12.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

13.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

16.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

17.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

18.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

19.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

20.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

21.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Clark, Frank A.

26.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

31.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

32.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

33.

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

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Plutarch

38.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

39.

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

Christina Stead

40.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

42.

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

43.

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

Spader, James

44.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

45.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

46.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

47.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

48.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

49.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles