Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Money

1.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

2.

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

3.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

4.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

5.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

6.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

7.

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

Wilde, Stuart

8.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

9.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

11.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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.

13.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

14.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

15.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Vaughan, Bill

19.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

20.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

22.

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

23.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

24.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

25.

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

Kin Hubbard

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.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

28.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

29.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

Proverb, Japanese

31.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

32.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

33.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

34.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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.