Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Rolland, Romain

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

2.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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

Youngman, Henny

4.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

5.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

6.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

10.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Collier, Robert

12.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

13.

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

Traub, Marvin

14.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

18.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

19.

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

Ward, Artemus

20.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

21.

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

Ken Hakuta

22.

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

G. K. Chesterton

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

25.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

27.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

28.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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.

30.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

31.

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

Proverb, Japanese

32.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

33.

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

34.

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

Plato

35.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Witkin, Georgia

37.

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

38.

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

Propertius, Sextus

39.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

40.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

43.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

44.

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.

45.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

46.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.