Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

13.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

14.

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

Bodie, Walford

15.

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.

16.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

France, Anatole

18.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

19.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

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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.

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

23.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

24.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

25.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Austen, Jane

27.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

28.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Williams, Les

30.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

33.

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

34.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

35.

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

Bowen, Ezra

36.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

37.

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

Sir Thomas More

38.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

39.

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

40.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

41.

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

42.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

43.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

46.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

47.

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

Barrymore, John

48.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

49.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

50.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl