Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Johnson, Ben

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

10.

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

Barrymore, John

11.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

13.

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

14.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

15.

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.

16.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

17.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

20.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

25.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Bible

29.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

30.

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

31.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

32.

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

Lucian

33.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

34.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

Plutarch

37.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

39.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

40.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

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.

42.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Jackson, Glenda

45.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

46.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

47.

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