Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

3.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

4.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Lemmon, Jack

8.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

9.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

10.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Egan, Sir John

12.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

13.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

15.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

16.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

17.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

18.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

20.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

21.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

22.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

23.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

26.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

27.

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

Plato

28.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

29.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

30.

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

Rolland, Romain

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Sophocles

33.

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

Spader, James

34.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

35.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

36.

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

37.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

38.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

41.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

42.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

43.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

44.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

45.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

46.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Lucian

48.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

49.

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

50.

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

Brown, Hobart