Motivational Quotes

Money

The only wealth is life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

1.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

2.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

3.

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

Branson, Richard

4.

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

Sophocles

5.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

6.

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

7.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

9.

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

10.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

11.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

12.

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

13.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

14.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

15.

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

Jonathan Swift

16.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

17.

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

18.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

19.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

Wilde, Stuart

21.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

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.

24.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

25.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

26.

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

27.

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

Ken Hakuta

28.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

29.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

36.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

37.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

38.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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