Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Money

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Egan, Sir John

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Seneca

11.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

12.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

16.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

17.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

20.

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

France, Anatole

21.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

22.

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

23.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

24.

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

Rebecca Johnson

25.

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

26.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

33.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

37.

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

38.

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

Juvenal

39.

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

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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

41.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

42.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

43.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

44.

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.

45.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

46.

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

47.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

48.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

49.

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

50.

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

Lucilius, Gaius