Motivational Quotes

Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Money

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Luther, Martin

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

France, Anatole

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.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Mike Tatum

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

17.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

18.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

19.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

24.

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

25.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

26.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

30.

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

Chanel, Coco

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.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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.

34.

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

Milligan, Spike

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

36.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

37.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

38.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

41.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

47.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

48.

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

49.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.