Motivational Quotes

Money

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Money

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Belloc, Hilaire

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

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

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

10.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

13.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

14.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

18.

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

Plutarch

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Lucian

21.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

22.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

23.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

24.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

25.

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

Chandler, Raymond

26.

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

Spader, James

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Quant, Mary

30.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

31.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Ward, Artemus

33.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

34.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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

Adams, Joey

36.

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

Ovid

37.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

39.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

40.

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander