Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

3.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

4.

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

Rolland, Romain

5.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

8.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

9.

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

France, Anatole

10.

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

Starr, Roger

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

13.

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.

14.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

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

Egan, Sir John

21.

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

22.

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

Getty, J. Paul

23.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

24.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

25.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

27.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

28.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

29.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

30.

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

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

Ernest Haskins

33.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

38.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

39.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

40.

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

Edith Wharton

41.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

42.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

43.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

44.

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

Collier, Robert

45.

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.

46.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

47.

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

48.

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

Phillips, Michael

49.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

50.

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

Getty, J. Paul