Motivational Quotes

Money

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Henry Fielding

2.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

3.

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

Traub, Marvin

4.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

7.

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

Chandler, Raymond

8.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

10.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

11.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

12.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

13.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Lennon, John

15.

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

16.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

17.

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

18.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

19.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

20.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

21.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

22.

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

23.

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

Ernest Haskins

24.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

25.

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

Williams, Les

26.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

27.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

28.

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

Wilson, Earl

29.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

31.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

32.

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

Austen, Jane

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

e e cummings

35.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

36.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

37.

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

Greeley, Horace

38.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

41.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

42.

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

Davenport, Rita

43.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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.

46.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

47.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

48.

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

49.

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

Ken Hakuta

50.

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

Lawana Blackwell