Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Money

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

10.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

11.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

14.

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

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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.

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

17.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

18.

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

Themistocles

19.

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

20.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

21.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

23.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

24.

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

Jackson, Glenda

25.

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

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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

27.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

28.

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

29.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

30.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

31.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

32.

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

Sir Thomas More

33.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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.

36.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

Benjamin Franklin

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Leo Rosten

40.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

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.

42.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

43.

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

Bible

44.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Jackie Mason

47.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

48.

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

49.

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

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

Starr, Roger