Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jackson, Glenda

Best Quotes about Money

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Leo Rosten

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

e e cummings

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

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Horace

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Katharine Whitehorn

10.

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

11.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

12.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

15.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

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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

18.

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

19.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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

22.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

23.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

24.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

26.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

27.

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

28.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

30.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

31.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

32.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

33.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

36.

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

Propertius, Sextus

37.

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

Proverb, Japanese

38.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

39.

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

40.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

Edith Wharton

43.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

44.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

45.

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

46.

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

Witkin, Georgia

47.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

48.

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

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.