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

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

Jane Austen

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb, Hebrew

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Katharine Whitehorn

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

10.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

11.

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

Youngman, Henny

12.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Jackie Mason

14.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

19.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

Propertius, Sextus

21.

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

Spader, James

22.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

23.

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

24.

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

Edith Wharton

25.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

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

Clark, Frank A.

27.

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

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

Groucho Marx

31.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

34.

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.

35.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

36.

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

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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

Bodie, Walford

38.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

39.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

44.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

45.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

46.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

47.

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

G. K. Chesterton

48.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

50.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.