Motivational Quotes

Money

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Money

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

Blotnick, Srully

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Austen, Jane

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

Spader, James

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

10.

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

France, Anatole

11.

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

12.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

14.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

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

Ward, Artemus

16.

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

17.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

18.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

19.

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

Barrymore, John

20.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

21.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

23.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

24.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

25.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

26.

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

27.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

28.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

29.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

30.

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

Lucian

31.

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

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

Clark, Frank A.

33.

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

34.

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

Clark, Frank A.

35.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

37.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

38.

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

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

41.

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.

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

Williams, Les

44.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

45.

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

Graham, Billy

46.

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

Bodie, Walford

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

49.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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