Motivational Quotes

Money

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

- Mccracken, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Adams, Joey

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

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Quant, Mary

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Burgess, Anthony

10.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

11.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

12.

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

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

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

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

23.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

29.

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

30.

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

Davenport, Rita

31.

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.

32.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

35.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

36.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

37.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

40.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

42.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

43.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

44.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

45.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

47.

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

Mike Tatum

48.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

49.

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

50.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.