Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Mike Tatum

Best Quotes about Money

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

Waitley, Denis

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

12.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

13.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

14.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

16.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

17.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

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

20.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

21.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

25.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Rolland, Romain

28.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Alexander, Scott

31.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

32.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

33.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

36.

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

Horace

37.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

41.

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

42.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

43.

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

Traub, Marvin

44.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

Johnson, Ben

46.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

47.

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

Ward, Artemus

48.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

49.

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

50.

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

Hudnick, Gittel