Motivational Quotes

Money

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Money

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

Ovid

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.

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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Waitley, Denis

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

11.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

12.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

13.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

14.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

15.

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

16.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

17.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

19.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

20.

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

Bible

21.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

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

Jane Austen

24.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

28.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

29.

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

30.

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

Propertius, Sextus

31.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Alexander, Scott

37.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

38.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

39.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

40.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

41.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

42.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Adams, Joey

46.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

48.

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

Clark, Frank A.

49.

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew