Motivational Quotes

Money

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

2.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

3.

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

Ruskin, John

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Ward, Artemus

6.

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

Adams, Joey

7.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

8.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

9.

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

Barrymore, John

10.

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

11.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

12.

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

Jonathan Swift

13.

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

Rolland, Romain

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

17.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

18.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

19.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Leo Rosten

21.

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.

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

24.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

25.

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

26.

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

Ford, Henry

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.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

29.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

30.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

33.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

34.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

35.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

Getty, J. Paul

38.

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

39.

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

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

41.

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

Williams, Les

42.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

46.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

47.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.