Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rebecca Johnson

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

10.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

11.

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

12.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

13.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

15.

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

Vaughan, Bill

16.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

17.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

22.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

23.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

24.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

Alexander, Scott

27.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

30.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

31.

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.

32.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

33.

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

34.

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

Greeley, Horace

35.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

36.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

37.

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

38.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

39.

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

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Clason, George S.

42.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

43.

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

44.

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

Evan Esar

45.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

46.

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

Egan, Sir John

47.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

48.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

49.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

G. K. Chesterton