Motivational Quotes

Money

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Evan Esar

2.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

5.

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

6.

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

Bodie, Walford

7.

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

Rolland, Romain

8.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

9.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

10.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

11.

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

12.

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

Branson, Richard

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

France, Anatole

15.

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

16.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

18.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

22.

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

Benjamin Franklin

23.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

24.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

25.

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

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

28.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

Blotnick, Srully

30.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

31.

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

Wilson, Earl

32.

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

33.

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

Kin Hubbard

34.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

35.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

37.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

38.

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

Rebecca Johnson

39.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Benjamin Franklin

41.

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

Alexander, Scott

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

45.

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

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

48.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

49.

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

50.

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