Motivational Quotes

Money

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

- Howard, John

Best Quotes about Money

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Christina Stead

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

Brown, Les

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

G. K. Chesterton

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ford, Henry

10.

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

11.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

12.

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

13.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

15.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

16.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

17.

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

18.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

19.

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

20.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

21.

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

22.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

23.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

25.

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

26.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Getty, J. Paul

28.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

29.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

31.

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

32.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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.

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

36.

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

Propertius, Sextus

37.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

38.

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

Williams, Tennessee

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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.

42.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

43.

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

Spader, James

44.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

46.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

47.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

50.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham