Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Mike Tatum

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

Plutarch

4.

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

Greeley, Horace

5.

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

6.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

7.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

8.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

10.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

11.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

12.

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

Horace

13.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

15.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

18.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

19.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

20.

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

21.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

22.

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

Wilde, Stuart

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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.

25.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

26.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

27.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

28.

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

Clark, Frank A.

29.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

30.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

31.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

33.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

34.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

35.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

37.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

38.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

39.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

40.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

42.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

43.

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

O'Malley, Austin

44.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

45.

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

Jackson, Glenda

46.

Never spend your money before you have it.