Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Money

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.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

10.

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

11.

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

Getty, J. Paul

12.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

17.

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

Plutarch

18.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

19.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

20.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

21.

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.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

23.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

24.

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

Proverb, Japanese

25.

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

26.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

27.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

31.

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

32.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

33.

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

34.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Alexander, Scott

37.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

Karbo, Joe

39.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

40.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

41.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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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

44.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

45.

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

Benjamin Franklin

46.

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

Lemmon, Jack

47.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Ford, Henry