Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Money

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wilde, Stuart

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lucian

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

10.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

12.

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

Rebecca Johnson

13.

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

Sir Thomas More

14.

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

15.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

16.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

17.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

18.

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

Jackie Mason

19.

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.

20.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Plato

23.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

24.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

25.

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

26.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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.

28.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

29.

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

30.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

31.

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.

32.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

35.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

36.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Keynes, John Maynard