Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

4.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

5.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

6.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Jane Austen

11.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

12.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

14.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

15.

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

Collier, Robert

16.

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

Wilde, Stuart

17.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

18.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

19.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

20.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

24.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

28.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

29.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

30.

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

31.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

32.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

34.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

35.

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

Alexander, Scott

36.

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

Clark, Frank A.

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Phillips, Michael

44.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

Rolland, Romain

46.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

47.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

48.

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.

49.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

50.

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

Mike Tatum