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

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

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

Ken Hakuta

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

10.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

11.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

12.

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

13.

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

Buffett, Warren

14.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

15.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Themistocles

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Barrymore, John

21.

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

22.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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.

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

30.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

34.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

35.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

36.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

38.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

39.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

40.

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

41.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

42.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

43.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

44.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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

Rebecca Johnson

47.

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

Adams, Joey

48.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

49.

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard