Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

2.

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

Swift, Jonathan

3.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

4.

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

e e cummings

5.

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

6.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

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

Wilson, Earl

8.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

9.

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

Clark, Frank A.

10.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

11.

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

12.

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

Austen, Jane

13.

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

Bible

14.

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.

15.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

16.

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.

17.

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

O'Malley, Austin

18.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

19.

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

Starr, Roger

20.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

22.

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

23.

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

Juvenal

24.

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

25.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

28.

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

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

31.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

32.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

33.

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

Benjamin Franklin

34.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

35.

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

Alexander, Scott

36.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

37.

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

38.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

39.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

40.

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.

41.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

42.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.