Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Rohn, Jim

2.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

3.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

4.

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

Bodie, Walford

5.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

6.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

7.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Williams, Tennessee

11.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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.

13.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

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

Vaughan, Bill

15.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

16.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

17.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

20.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

21.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Clason, George S.

23.

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

24.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

25.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

30.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

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

Traub, Marvin

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

35.

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

36.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

37.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

40.

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

Earle, Bill

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

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

Ernest Haskins

43.

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

44.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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.