Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Money

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Lucian

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

W. Somerset Maugham

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

11.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

12.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

16.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

17.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

18.

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.

19.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

21.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

22.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

23.

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

Egan, Sir John

24.

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

25.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

26.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

27.

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

28.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

29.

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

30.

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

G. K. Chesterton

31.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

32.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

33.

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

34.

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

Seneca

35.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

36.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Orben, Robert

38.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

39.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

40.

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

Jackson, Glenda

41.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

42.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Horace

44.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

45.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

46.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

47.

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.

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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

49.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

50.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony