Motivational Quotes

Money

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

- Robert W. Sarnoff

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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.

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

10.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

11.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

12.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

14.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

15.

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

Clark, Frank A.

16.

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

Orben, Robert

17.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

18.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

19.

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

Waitley, Denis

20.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

24.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

25.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

26.

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

28.

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

Chanel, Coco

29.

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

Lynn Johnston

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

32.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

33.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Graham, Billy

41.

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

Fulghum, Robert

42.

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

43.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

44.

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

Benjamin Franklin

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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