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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

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

Johnson, Ben

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Horace

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

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

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

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

10.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

12.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

14.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

15.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Davenport, Rita

18.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

19.

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

Groucho Marx

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

22.

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

Alexander, Scott

23.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

24.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Mike Tatum

27.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

28.

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

29.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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.

31.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

32.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

33.

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

e e cummings

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

37.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

38.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Blotnick, Srully

40.

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

Ovid

41.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

42.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

43.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

46.

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

Chandler, Raymond

47.

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.

48.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

49.

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

Jackson, Glenda

50.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger