Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Money

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Adams, Joey

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Orben, Robert

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

Ovid

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

11.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Johnson, Ben

13.

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

Rebecca Johnson

14.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

17.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

18.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

19.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

20.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

21.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

26.

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

Phillips, Michael

27.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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.

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

33.

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

Getty, J. Paul

34.

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.

35.

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

Alexander, Scott

36.

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.

37.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

38.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Traub, Marvin

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

42.

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

Jackie Mason

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.

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

Fielding, Henry

48.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

50.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.