Motivational Quotes

Money

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

- Billings, Victoria

Best Quotes about Money

1.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

2.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

3.

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

4.

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

Chanel, Coco

5.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

6.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

7.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

8.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

9.

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

Buffett, Warren

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Hobart

14.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

22.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

23.

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

Bodie, Walford

24.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

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

27.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

29.

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

30.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

32.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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.

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

36.

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

37.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

39.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Quant, Mary

41.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

42.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

43.

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

France, Anatole

44.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

45.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Christina Stead

47.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

48.

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

Benjamin Franklin

49.

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

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.