Motivational Quotes

Money

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

- Alexander, Scott

Best Quotes about Money

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Adams, Joey

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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

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

10.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

13.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Greeley, Horace

15.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

16.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

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

Groucho Marx

18.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

19.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

21.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

22.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

23.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

24.

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.

25.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

26.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

28.

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

Ernest Haskins

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

31.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

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

Quant, Mary

35.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

37.

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

38.

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

Mike Tatum

39.

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

Lemmon, Jack

40.

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

41.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

42.

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

Ovid

43.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

44.

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

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Clark, Frank A.

47.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

48.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

49.

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

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug