Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Youngman, Henny

4.

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.

5.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

8.

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

Proverb, Japanese

9.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

10.

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

11.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

14.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

15.

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

Swift, Jonathan

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

21.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

23.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

24.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

25.

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

26.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

27.

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.

28.

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

G. K. Chesterton

29.

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

Asnas, Max

30.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

33.

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

34.

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

Jackson, Glenda

35.

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

Greeley, Horace

36.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

37.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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.

39.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

41.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

42.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.