Motivational Quotes

Money

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Chandler, Raymond

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Ernest Haskins

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

23.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

24.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Greeley, Horace

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

30.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

31.

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

Henry Fielding

32.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

33.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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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.

35.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

36.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

38.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

39.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

40.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

41.

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

Ford, Henry

42.

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

43.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

44.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

45.

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

Juvenal

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.