Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Money

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ken Hakuta

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Edith Wharton

12.

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

Orben, Robert

13.

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

14.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

16.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

17.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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.

20.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

23.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

25.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

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

Vaughan, Bill

28.

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

Clark, Frank A.

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

31.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

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

Wilde, Stuart

33.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

35.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

36.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

37.

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

Ernest Haskins

38.

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

Rolland, Romain

39.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

41.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

42.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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

Proverb, Japanese

45.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

46.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

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

49.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

50.

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

G. K. Chesterton