Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Money

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Bible

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Ovid

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

11.

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

Quant, Mary

12.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

13.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

14.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

16.

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

Christina Stead

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

20.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

22.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

24.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

25.

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

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

28.

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

G. K. Chesterton

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

30.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

31.

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

32.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

40.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

41.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

44.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

45.

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

Jane Austen

46.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

47.

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

Groucho Marx

48.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

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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