Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

2.

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

Juvenal

3.

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

e e cummings

4.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

5.

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

Ovid

6.

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

Rohn, Jim

7.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

8.

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

9.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

10.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

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

Ernest Haskins

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

17.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

18.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

19.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

20.

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

21.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

22.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

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

24.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

25.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

26.

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

27.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

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

Barrymore, John

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Lemmon, Jack

32.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

33.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

34.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Phillips, Michael

37.

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

Bible

38.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

40.

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

Bowen, Ezra

41.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

42.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

43.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

44.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

47.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

48.

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

Blotnick, Srully

49.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

50.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.