Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Money

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Evan Esar

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Ford, Henry

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

Williams, Les

14.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

16.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

17.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

18.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

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

20.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

21.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

22.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

26.

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

e e cummings

27.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

28.

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

Henry Fielding

29.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

30.

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

31.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

32.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

33.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Japanese

36.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

37.

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

38.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

42.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

43.

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