Motivational Quotes

Money

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Money

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

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

12.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

13.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

14.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

15.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

16.

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

Ken Hakuta

17.

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

18.

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

Orben, Robert

19.

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

20.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Rolland, Romain

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

23.

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

Johnson, Ben

24.

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

25.

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

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

Brown, Hobart

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

30.

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

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

Juvenal

32.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

33.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

34.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

37.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

38.

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

Lucian

39.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

40.

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

Ney, Richard

41.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

45.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

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

Evan Esar

47.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

48.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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