Motivational Quotes

Money

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

- Donald Trump

Best Quotes about Money

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

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

10.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

11.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Christina Stead

13.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

14.

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

Karbo, Joe

15.

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.

16.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Juvenal

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

22.

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

Williams, Les

23.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Lemmon, Jack

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

30.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

31.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

32.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

34.

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

35.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

36.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

37.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

39.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

40.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

41.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

46.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

48.

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

Wilde, Stuart

49.

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

50.

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