Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Themistocles

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

2.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

3.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

4.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

5.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

6.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

7.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

8.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

15.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

16.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

19.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

21.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

22.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

23.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

25.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

27.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

28.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

29.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

30.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

31.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

32.

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

33.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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

Clark, Frank A.

36.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

39.

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

Lynn Johnston

40.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

Donald Trump

42.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

43.

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

44.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

45.

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

46.

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

47.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

48.

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

49.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.