Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Money

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Twain, Mark

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Asnas, Max

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Propertius, Sextus

11.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

13.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

17.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

19.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

Williams, Les

21.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

22.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

23.

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

Benjamin Franklin

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

France, Anatole

26.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

28.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

29.

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.

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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

31.

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

Wilson, Earl

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

35.

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

36.

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

38.

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

Adams, Joey

39.

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

40.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

44.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

45.

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

46.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

47.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

48.

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

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

50.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street