Motivational Quotes

Money

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Money

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Fielding, Henry

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Davenport, Rita

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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.

12.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

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

Bowen, Ezra

14.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

15.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

16.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

17.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

18.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

19.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

20.

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

Benjamin Franklin

21.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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.

23.

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

Egan, Sir John

24.

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

Ward, Artemus

25.

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

Spader, James

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

France, Anatole

28.

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

29.

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

Lucian

30.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

31.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

32.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

33.

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

34.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

35.

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

Jackie Mason

36.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

40.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

41.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

42.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

43.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

45.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

46.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

48.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

50.

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