Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Johnson, Ben

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Collier, Robert

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

12.

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

Phillips, Michael

13.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

14.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Quant, Mary

16.

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

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

18.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

19.

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

20.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

21.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

23.

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

Christina Stead

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

31.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

32.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

33.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

34.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

39.

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

40.

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

Chandler, Raymond

41.

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

Jackie Mason

42.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Plato

48.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

49.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry