Motivational Quotes

Money

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Money

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Clason, George S.

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

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

11.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

Starr, Roger

15.

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

Swift, Jonathan

16.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

17.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Propertius, Sextus

19.

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

20.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

21.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

22.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

23.

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

Bowen, Ezra

24.

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

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

26.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

27.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

28.

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

Vaughan, Bill

29.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

31.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

32.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

33.

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.

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

36.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

38.

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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

41.

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

Traub, Marvin

42.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

45.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

46.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

47.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

48.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

49.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

50.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard