Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lynn Johnston

Best Quotes about Money

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wilson, Earl

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

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

Voltaire

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

Graham, Billy

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.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

17.

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

Blotnick, Srully

18.

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

19.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

20.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Leo Rosten

24.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

25.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

28.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

30.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

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

33.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Earle, Bill

35.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

36.

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

37.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

38.

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

39.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Getty, J. Paul

45.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

46.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

47.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

48.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

49.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.