Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

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

Seneca

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

11.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

12.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

16.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

23.

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

Chanel, Coco

24.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

25.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

26.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

27.

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

Lemmon, Jack

28.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Themistocles

32.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

35.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

36.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

37.

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

Clason, George S.

38.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

40.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

41.

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

42.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

43.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

44.

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

45.

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

Fulghum, Robert

46.

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

Benjamin Franklin

47.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

48.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

49.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace