Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lucilius, Gaius

Best Quotes about Money

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

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Jackie Mason

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

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

Hudnick, Gittel

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Kin Hubbard

10.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

11.

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

Collier, Robert

12.

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

Asnas, Max

13.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

Plutarch

16.

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

Burgess, Anthony

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

21.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

22.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

23.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

25.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

27.

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

28.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

31.

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

Alexander, Scott

32.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

33.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

34.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

35.

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

Austen, Jane

36.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Voltaire

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

Spader, James

40.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

41.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

43.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Wilde, Stuart

45.

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

Jane Austen

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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.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

48.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

50.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert