Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lewis, Joe E.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Ovid

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Keynes, John Maynard

10.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

11.

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

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

14.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

15.

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

16.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

19.

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

20.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

23.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

24.

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

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

Spader, James

26.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

27.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

28.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

34.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

35.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

37.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

38.

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

Greeley, Horace

39.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

43.

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

Mike Tatum

44.

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

Wilde, Stuart

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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

47.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

48.

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

Clark, Frank A.

49.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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