Motivational Quotes

Money

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

3.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

4.

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.

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

7.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

8.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

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

Spader, James

10.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

11.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

12.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

17.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

18.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

19.

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

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

23.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Japanese

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

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

28.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

29.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

30.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

31.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

32.

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

33.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

34.

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

Sophocles

35.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

36.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

37.

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

Getty, J. Paul

38.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Ken Hakuta

43.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

44.

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

45.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Jane Austen

47.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

48.

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