Motivational Quotes

Money

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Money

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

Williams, Les

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Davenport, Rita

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

12.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

13.

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

Proverb, Japanese

14.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

16.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

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

Bodie, Walford

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

20.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Ney, Richard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

27.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

28.

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

Ward, Artemus

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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.

30.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

31.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

32.

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

33.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

34.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

35.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

36.

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

Propertius, Sextus

37.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

39.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

40.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Getty, J. Paul

42.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

43.

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

Jackie Mason

44.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

45.

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

Lynn Johnston

46.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

47.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Quant, Mary

49.

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

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.