Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

2.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

3.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

4.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

5.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

6.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

7.

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

8.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

9.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

13.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

Leo Rosten

16.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

18.

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

Ward, Artemus

19.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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.

22.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

23.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

24.

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

25.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

26.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

27.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Jackie Mason

29.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

31.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

39.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

44.

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

45.

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

Starr, Roger

46.

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.