Motivational Quotes

Money

Never spend your money before you have it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ovid

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

10.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

11.

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

Evan Esar

12.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

13.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

14.

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

15.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Wilson, Earl

18.

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

19.

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

20.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

21.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

22.

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

23.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

24.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

26.

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

France, Anatole

27.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

28.

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

Davenport, Rita

29.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

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

Egan, Sir John

37.

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

38.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Donald Trump

43.

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

Lynn Johnston

44.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

45.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

46.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

50.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula