Motivational Quotes

Money

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

- Earle, Bill

Best Quotes about Money

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Sophocles

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Ernest Haskins

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

10.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

13.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

14.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

15.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

16.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

17.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

18.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

Lennon, John

21.

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

Orben, Robert

22.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

23.

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

Clark, Frank A.

24.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

25.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

26.

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

Plato

27.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

31.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

32.

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

Witkin, Georgia

33.

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

Jackson, Glenda

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

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

38.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

42.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

43.

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

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