Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

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.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Sophocles

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

10.

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

Barrymore, John

11.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

12.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

13.

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

Henry Fielding

14.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

15.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

17.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

18.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

20.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

21.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

24.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

25.

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

Buffett, Warren

26.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

27.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

29.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

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

32.

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

Orben, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

Propertius, Sextus

35.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

38.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

39.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

40.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

41.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

42.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

44.

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

Wilde, Stuart

45.

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

G. K. Chesterton

46.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

47.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

48.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

49.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

50.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese