Motivational Quotes

Money

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

- Blotnick, Srully

Best Quotes about Money

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

10.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

12.

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

13.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

15.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

19.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

20.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

22.

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

23.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

26.

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

Sir Thomas More

27.

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

Clark, Frank A.

28.

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

Wilde, Stuart

29.

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

30.

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

Vaughan, Bill

31.

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

Ney, Richard

32.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

35.

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

O'Malley, Austin

36.

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

Bowen, Ezra

37.

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

38.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

39.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

40.

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

Leo Rosten

41.

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