Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ernest Haskins

Best Quotes about Money

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

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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

Rebecca Johnson

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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.

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Kin Hubbard

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

10.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

13.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

14.

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

15.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

16.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

17.

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

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

20.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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 really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

27.

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.

28.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

29.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

30.

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

Clason, George S.

31.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

32.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

33.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

34.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

36.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

37.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

38.

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

Rolland, Romain

39.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Alexander, Scott

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

49.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

50.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.