Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Money

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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.

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

Williams, Les

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Jane Austen

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

Katharine Whitehorn

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

10.

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

Henry Fielding

11.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

12.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

13.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

14.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

17.

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

Benjamin Franklin

18.

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

19.

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

Ovid

20.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

21.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

22.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

23.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

24.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

25.

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 only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

27.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

30.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

31.

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

Asnas, Max

32.

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

Davenport, Rita

33.

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

Christina Stead

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

36.

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

Ward, Artemus

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

39.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

40.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

47.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

49.

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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.