Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Evan Esar

Lapham, Lewis H.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ken Hakuta

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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.

11.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

13.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

17.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

18.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

19.

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

20.

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

Kin Hubbard

21.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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

26.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

27.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

28.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

32.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

33.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

34.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

37.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

38.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

39.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

41.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

42.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

45.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

47.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

48.

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

Spader, James

49.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

50.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian