Motivational Quotes

Money

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

2.

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

Plutarch

3.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

6.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Leo Rosten

8.

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

9.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

10.

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

Getty, J. Paul

11.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Horace

14.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Rebecca Johnson

18.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

19.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

20.

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

21.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

25.

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

26.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

27.

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

Christina Stead

28.

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

29.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

Alexander, Scott

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

34.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

35.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

37.

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

Mike Tatum

38.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

Alexander, Scott

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

Fielding, Henry

46.

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

Collier, Robert

47.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

48.

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

Chanel, Coco

49.

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.

50.

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

Bodie, Walford