Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Collier, Robert

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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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.

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

Mike Tatum

10.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

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.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

19.

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

20.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

21.

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

Juvenal

22.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

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

Williams, Tennessee

25.

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

26.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Blotnick, Srully

28.

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

Christina Stead

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 doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

31.

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

32.

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

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Bowen, Ezra

38.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

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

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!