Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Money

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

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

12.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

13.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

19.

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

Getty, J. Paul

20.

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

21.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

22.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

23.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

24.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

25.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

26.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

27.

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

Karbo, Joe

28.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

30.

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

Sir Thomas More

31.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

35.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

37.

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

38.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

40.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

41.

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

Lemmon, Jack

42.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

43.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

44.

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

45.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Waitley, Denis