Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Henry Fielding

Best Quotes about Money

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jackie Mason

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

13.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

14.

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

Clark, Frank A.

15.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

Henry Fielding

17.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

18.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

19.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Collier, Robert

22.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

24.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

25.

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

Getty, J. Paul

26.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

27.

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

Ovid

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

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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

30.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

31.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

33.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

36.

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