Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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.

Zimet, Martin

3.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

4.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

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

Greeley, Horace

6.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

7.

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.

8.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

9.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

17.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

18.

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

19.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

22.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

23.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

24.

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

Jackie Mason

25.

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

Bowen, Ezra

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

28.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Jonathan Swift

30.

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

31.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

G. K. Chesterton

35.

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.

Binger, William

36.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

37.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

38.

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.

39.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

40.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

41.

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

Groucho Marx

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Ward, Artemus

44.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

45.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

46.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

47.

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

48.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

49.

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

50.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham