Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Money

1.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

2.

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

3.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

4.

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

Mike Tatum

5.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

6.

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

Plato

7.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

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

Ziglar, Zig

9.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Johnson, Ben

11.

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

Phillips, Michael

12.

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

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

Lucian

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

16.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

Karbo, Joe

18.

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

19.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

23.

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

Williams, Tennessee

24.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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.

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

Alexander, Scott

32.

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.

33.

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

Sir Thomas More

34.

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

Jane Austen

35.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

38.

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

39.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

42.

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.

43.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

44.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

45.

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

Clason, George S.

46.

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