Motivational Quotes

Money

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

- Riccoboni, Mme.

Best Quotes about Money

1.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

3.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

4.

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

5.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

6.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

7.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

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

Starr, Roger

10.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

11.

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

Leo Rosten

12.

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

Greeley, Horace

13.

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

14.

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

Karbo, Joe

15.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

16.

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

17.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Quant, Mary

21.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

22.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

23.

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

Williams, Tennessee

24.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

e e cummings

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

30.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

France, Anatole

36.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

37.

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

Wilson, Earl

38.

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

Sir Thomas More

39.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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.

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Benjamin Franklin

45.

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

Buffett, Warren

46.

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.