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

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Earle, Bill

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

Milligan, Spike

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.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Bible

10.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

11.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

12.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

13.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

14.

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

15.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

16.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

22.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

24.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

25.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

26.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Clason, George S.

28.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

29.

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

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

32.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

34.

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

Jane Austen

35.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.