Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Orben, Robert

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Graham, Billy

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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Collier, Robert

10.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Williams, Tennessee

12.

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

13.

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

Egan, Sir John

14.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

17.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

21.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

27.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

28.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

33.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

37.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

38.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

43.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

44.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

45.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

46.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

47.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

48.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

49.

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

Sir Thomas More

50.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.