Motivational Quotes

Money

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Horace

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Phillips, Michael

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

12.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

13.

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

14.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

15.

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

16.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

17.

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

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

22.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

23.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

26.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

27.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

28.

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

Karbo, Joe

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Sir Thomas More

32.

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

Leo Rosten

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

Clark, Frank A.

35.

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

Groucho Marx

36.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

37.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

38.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Adams, Joey

40.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

41.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

42.

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

43.

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

Orben, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

46.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

47.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

50.

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