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

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Clason, George S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

10.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

18.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Themistocles

21.

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

Bible

22.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

25.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

26.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

27.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

28.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

29.

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

Ward, Artemus

30.

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

Graham, Billy

31.

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

Christina Stead

32.

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

Phillips, Michael

33.

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

Jackie Mason

34.

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

35.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

36.

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

37.

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

Propertius, Sextus

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Traub, Marvin

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

G. K. Chesterton

45.

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

46.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

47.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

48.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

49.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.