Motivational Quotes

Money

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

- Lynn Johnston

Best Quotes about Money

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Lennon, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

10.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Starr, Roger

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

16.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

17.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Plato

23.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

24.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

26.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

27.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

29.

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

Benjamin Franklin

30.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

31.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

32.

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

33.

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

Chandler, Raymond

34.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

35.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

37.

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

Themistocles

38.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

42.

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

Donald Trump

43.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

44.

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

Ward, Artemus

45.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Wilde, Stuart

48.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

50.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard