Motivational Quotes

Money

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

- Bodie, Walford

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Davenport, Rita

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Groucho Marx

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

10.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

13.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

17.

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

18.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Waitley, Denis

20.

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

Quant, Mary

21.

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

22.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

23.

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

24.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

26.

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

Ernest Haskins

27.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.

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

Benjamin Franklin

29.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

30.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

31.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

32.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

33.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

34.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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

36.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

38.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

39.

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.

40.

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

Rebecca Johnson

41.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

42.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

43.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.