Motivational Quotes

Money

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Money

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

Seneca

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

Groucho Marx

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

10.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

12.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

17.

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

France, Anatole

18.

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.

19.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

20.

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

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

23.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

24.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

25.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

26.

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

27.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

29.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

30.

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

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

32.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

38.

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

39.

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

Evan Esar

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Ford, Henry

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato