Motivational Quotes

Money

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

- Wilde, Stuart

Best Quotes about Money

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

O'Malley, Austin

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Jonathan Swift

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Donald Trump

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

Ford, Henry

10.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

11.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

12.

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.

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

17.

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

18.

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

G. K. Chesterton

19.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

20.

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

21.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

22.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

23.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

26.

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

27.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

32.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

35.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

36.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

39.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

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

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Clark, Frank A.

42.

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

Bible

43.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

45.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

46.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

47.

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

48.

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

Evan Esar

49.

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

Clark, Frank A.

50.

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.