Motivational Quotes

Money

Money doesn't sleep.

- Movie, Wall Street

Best Quotes about Money

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Clark, Frank A.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Christina Stead

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

12.

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

Blotnick, Srully

13.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

14.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Collier, Robert

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

19.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

20.

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

Horace

21.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

24.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Jackson, Glenda

26.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

27.

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

Mike Tatum

28.

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

Lucian

29.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

32.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

33.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

35.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

36.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

44.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

45.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

46.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

47.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

48.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

49.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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