Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

2.

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

3.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

4.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

5.

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

Ken Hakuta

6.

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.

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

9.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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.

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

Themistocles

12.

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

Barrymore, John

13.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

17.

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

18.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

19.

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

Henry Fielding

20.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Benjamin Franklin

22.

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

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

25.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

26.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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.

29.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Christina Stead

31.

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

32.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

35.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

36.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

37.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

38.

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

Brown, Les

39.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

40.

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

41.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.