Motivational Quotes

Money

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Money

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Plutarch

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

10.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

11.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

21.

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

22.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Japanese

26.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

27.

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

Mike Tatum

28.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

29.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

33.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

37.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

38.

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

Ken Hakuta

39.

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

40.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

41.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Lynn Johnston

43.

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