Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sir Henry Taylor

Best Quotes about Money

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Karbo, Joe

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Groucho Marx

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

10.

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

11.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Greeley, Horace

14.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

16.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

Rolland, Romain

19.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

20.

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

Plato

21.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

22.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

23.

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

Phillips, Michael

24.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

26.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

27.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

28.

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

Williams, Tennessee

29.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

32.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

33.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

35.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

38.

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

39.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

42.

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

Branson, Richard

43.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Orben, Robert

47.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

49.

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.

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

Spader, James