Motivational Quotes

Money

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

- Evan Esar

Best Quotes about Money

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Williams, Les

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

Henry Fielding

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

Buffett, Warren

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Karbo, Joe

11.

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

12.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

13.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

14.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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

18.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

19.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

20.

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

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

22.

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

23.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

24.

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

25.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

26.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

27.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

28.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

29.

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

Benjamin Franklin

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Jackson, Glenda

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

37.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

38.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

39.

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.

40.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

41.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

42.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

43.

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

Barrymore, John

44.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Asnas, Max

49.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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