Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Money

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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.

11.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

12.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

13.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

14.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

15.

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

Rolland, Romain

16.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

17.

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

Jackson, Glenda

18.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Quant, Mary

22.

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.

23.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

24.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

25.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

26.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Earle, Bill

28.

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

Bodie, Walford

29.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Keynes, John Maynard

32.

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

Rebecca Johnson

33.

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.

34.

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

Lynn Johnston

35.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

36.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

37.

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

38.

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

Blotnick, Srully

39.

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.

40.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

41.

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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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

46.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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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

48.

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

49.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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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