Motivational Quotes

Money

Money without brains is always dangerous.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

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

Asnas, Max

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

10.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

11.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

13.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

14.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

18.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

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

Propertius, Sextus

22.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

23.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

24.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

27.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

28.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

30.

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

Clark, Frank A.

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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

36.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

37.

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

38.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

39.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

40.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

43.

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

44.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

45.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

50.

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

Mike Tatum