Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Money

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Juvenal

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Starr, Roger

10.

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

11.

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

12.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

13.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

14.

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

Davenport, Rita

15.

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

16.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

17.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

18.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

19.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

22.

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

23.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

24.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

25.

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

Getty, J. Paul

26.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

27.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

30.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

31.

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

32.

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

Wilde, Stuart

33.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

34.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

39.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

40.

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

Alexander, Scott

41.

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

Rolland, Romain

42.

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

Asnas, Max

43.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

44.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Clark, Frank A.

48.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

49.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.