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

1.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

5.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

6.

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

Clark, Frank A.

7.

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

Carson, Johnny

8.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

9.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

11.

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

Collier, Robert

12.

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

G. K. Chesterton

13.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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.

15.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

20.

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

Adams, Joey

21.

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

22.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

23.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

30.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

31.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

32.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

35.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

36.

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

Asnas, Max

37.

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

Sir Thomas More

38.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

42.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

43.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

44.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

45.

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

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

48.

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

49.

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

Phillips, Michael

50.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.