Motivational Quotes

Money

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Edith Wharton

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Ovid

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Orben, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Adams, Joey

13.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

Bowen, Ezra

16.

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

17.

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

18.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

19.

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

G. K. Chesterton

20.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

21.

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

Chanel, Coco

22.

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

Juvenal

23.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

24.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

25.

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

Jane Austen

26.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

27.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

28.

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

29.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

30.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

31.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

36.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

37.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

38.

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

Rebecca Johnson

39.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

40.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

42.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

Ward, Artemus

44.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

45.

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

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

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

48.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

49.

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

Johnson, Ben

50.

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