Motivational Quotes

Money

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

- Ayckbourn, Alan

Best Quotes about Money

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Collier, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Clason, George S.

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

Plutarch

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

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Karbo, Joe

10.

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

11.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

12.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

13.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

14.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

15.

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

16.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

18.

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

Ney, Richard

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

22.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

23.

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.

24.

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

Alexander, Scott

25.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

26.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

27.

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

Brown, Hobart

28.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

30.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

31.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

33.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

34.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

35.

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

36.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

37.

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

38.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

39.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

40.

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.

41.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

42.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

43.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

44.

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

Branson, Richard

45.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

46.

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.

47.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

49.

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

50.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon