Motivational Quotes

Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Money

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

Sir Henry Taylor

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

Ovid

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Ney, Richard

10.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

11.

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

Lynn Johnston

12.

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

15.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

16.

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

17.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Burgess, Anthony

19.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

23.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

25.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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.

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

34.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller