Motivational Quotes

Money

The world is his who has money to go over it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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

Bible

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

12.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

15.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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.

18.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

19.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

24.

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

25.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

28.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

29.

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

30.

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

Starr, Roger

31.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

32.

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

Greeley, Horace

33.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

34.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

37.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

38.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Jackson, Glenda

42.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

45.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

46.

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

Propertius, Sextus

47.

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

Kin Hubbard

48.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.