Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Henry Fielding

Best Quotes about Money

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Orben, Robert

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

Christina Stead

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

13.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

14.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

15.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

16.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

17.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

18.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

19.

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

Clason, George S.

20.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

22.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

24.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

26.

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

27.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

28.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

29.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

35.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

36.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

40.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

41.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

43.

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

Jane Austen

44.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

45.

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

Rolland, Romain

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A fool and her money are soon courted.