Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Money

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Jane Austen

10.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

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

Jackie Mason

12.

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

Barrymore, John

13.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

14.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

15.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

17.

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

18.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

19.

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

Juvenal

20.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Alexander, Scott

23.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

24.

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.

25.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

26.

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

Bowen, Ezra

27.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Austen, Jane

29.

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

30.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Starr, Roger

32.

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

33.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

38.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

40.

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

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

42.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

43.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Ernest Haskins

45.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

46.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

50.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo