Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

O'Malley, Austin

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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

Ovid

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

10.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

13.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

14.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

Quant, Mary

17.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

Rolland, Romain

23.

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

Williams, Les

24.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Phillips, Michael

26.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

27.

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

Bowen, Ezra

28.

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

29.

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

Davenport, Rita

30.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

31.

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

32.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Clark, Frank A.

37.

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

Ken Hakuta

38.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

39.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

40.

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

Alexander, Scott

41.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

42.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

43.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

44.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

45.

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.

46.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

49.

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

Leo Rosten

50.

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