Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

10.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

11.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

Quant, Mary

14.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

15.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

16.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

17.

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

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

Ford, Henry

20.

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

Buffett, Warren

21.

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

22.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

23.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

24.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

25.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Johnson, Ben

28.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

30.

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

Orben, Robert

31.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

34.

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

35.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

36.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

37.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

38.

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

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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

40.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

42.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

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

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 be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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

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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