Motivational Quotes

Money

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

- Sir Thomas More

Best Quotes about Money

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

Davenport, Rita

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rebecca Johnson

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

13.

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.

14.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

15.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

16.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

17.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

18.

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

Proverb, Japanese

19.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

21.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

22.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

23.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Witkin, Georgia

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

29.

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

Sophocles

30.

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

Ken Hakuta

31.

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

Evan Esar

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

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

37.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

38.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

39.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

42.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

43.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

44.

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

Edith Wharton

45.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

46.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

47.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

48.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

49.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel