Motivational Quotes

Money

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Money

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Milligan, Spike

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Alexander, Scott

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

10.

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

Bumper Sticker

11.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

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

Plato

14.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

15.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

19.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

20.

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

Johnson, Ben

21.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Vaughan, Bill

23.

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

24.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

26.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

27.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

28.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

29.

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

Phillips, Michael

30.

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.

31.

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

Jackie Mason

32.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

33.

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

Clason, George S.

34.

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

35.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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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

39.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

40.

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

Sir Thomas More

41.

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

Egan, Sir John

42.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

43.

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

44.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

45.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

Lemmon, Jack

49.

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.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De