Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Money

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Jane Austen

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

10.

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

Wilde, Stuart

11.

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.

12.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

13.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

14.

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

Themistocles

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

17.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

18.

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

19.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

20.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

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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.

23.

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

Evan Esar

24.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

25.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

26.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

27.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

28.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

30.

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

e e cummings

31.

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

32.

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

Quant, Mary

33.

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

Bible

34.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

35.

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.

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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

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Greeley, Horace

39.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

40.

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

Ford, Henry

41.

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

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

Rebecca Johnson

45.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

48.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

49.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

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

Twain, Mark