Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Money

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Lucian

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

10.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

11.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

13.

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

Sir Thomas More

14.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

15.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

16.

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

17.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

18.

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

19.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

24.

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

Henry Fielding

25.

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

Jackie Mason

26.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Vaughan, Bill

28.

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

29.

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

Wilde, Stuart

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

32.

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

Milligan, Spike

33.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

40.

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

Clark, Frank A.

41.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

43.

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

44.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

45.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

46.

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

Youngman, Henny

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.