Motivational Quotes

Money

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Money

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Benjamin Franklin

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Sophocles

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

Williams, Les

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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.

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

14.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

15.

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

Quant, Mary

16.

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

Mike Tatum

17.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

19.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

20.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

21.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

22.

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

Vaughan, Bill

23.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Egan, Sir John

28.

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.

29.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

30.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Johnson, Ben

32.

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

Propertius, Sextus

33.

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

Edith Wharton

34.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

35.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

36.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

37.

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

Getty, J. Paul

38.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

45.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

47.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

48.

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

Carson, Johnny

49.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

50.

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