Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

2.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

4.

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

Sir Thomas More

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Themistocles

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

13.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

14.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

15.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

17.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

19.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

22.

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

Ovid

23.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

24.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

25.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

26.

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

27.

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

Starr, Roger

28.

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

Collier, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

32.

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

Alexander, Scott

33.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

35.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

36.

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

Getty, J. Paul

37.

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

Barrymore, John

38.

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

Blotnick, Srully

39.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

40.

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

Quant, Mary

41.

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

42.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

43.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

44.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

46.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

47.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

49.

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

Greeley, Horace

50.

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