Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Ward, Artemus

2.

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

Rohn, Jim

3.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

Brown, Les

5.

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

Donald Trump

6.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

8.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

9.

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

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

Getty, J. Paul

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

15.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

16.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

17.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Vaughan, Bill

19.

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

Davenport, Rita

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

22.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

23.

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

24.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

25.

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

Seneca

26.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

27.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Rolland, Romain

29.

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

30.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

31.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

32.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

37.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Ford, Henry

39.

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

Adams, Joey

40.

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

Barrymore, John

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

46.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

47.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

50.

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

Chandler, Raymond