Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Buffett, Warren

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

10.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

11.

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

Traub, Marvin

12.

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

Blotnick, Srully

13.

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

Davenport, Rita

15.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

16.

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

17.

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

Bowen, Ezra

18.

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

Henry Fielding

19.

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

20.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

21.

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

Burgess, Anthony

22.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

23.

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

Vaughan, Bill

24.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

25.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

26.

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

O'Malley, Austin

27.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

28.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

30.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

33.

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

Collier, Robert

34.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

35.

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

Clark, Frank A.

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

Rebecca Johnson

39.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

40.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

41.

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

Rolland, Romain

42.

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

43.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

46.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

47.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

48.

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

49.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty