Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Lucian

2.

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

3.

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

Benjamin Franklin

4.

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

Starr, Roger

5.

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

Ken Hakuta

6.

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

7.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

8.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

9.

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

Propertius, Sextus

10.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

12.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Austen, Jane

15.

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

16.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

17.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

18.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

19.

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

Edith Wharton

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

23.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

25.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

26.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

28.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

29.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

30.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

31.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

34.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fulghum, Robert

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

39.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

41.

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

Ernest Haskins

42.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

46.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

47.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Wilde, Stuart