Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Money

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

Brown, Les

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

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

12.

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

Benjamin Franklin

13.

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

Burgess, Anthony

14.

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

15.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

16.

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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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

18.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

19.

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

Austen, Jane

20.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

21.

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

France, Anatole

22.

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

23.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

29.

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

e e cummings

30.

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

Plato

31.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

33.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

Jackson, Glenda

35.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Williams, Tennessee

40.

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

Donald Trump

41.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

42.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

43.

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

Chandler, Raymond

44.

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

Bible

45.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

46.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

48.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

49.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

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

Phillips, Michael