Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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

Fulghum, Robert

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Mike Tatum

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

10.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

12.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

13.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

14.

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

15.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

17.

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

18.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

19.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

20.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

21.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Benjamin Franklin

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.

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

Chanel, Coco

25.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Starr, Roger

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Getty, J. Paul

30.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Alexander, Scott

32.

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.

33.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

34.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

Blotnick, Srully

38.

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

Traub, Marvin

39.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

41.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

44.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

45.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

46.

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

Clason, George S.

47.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

49.

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

Spader, James

50.

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

G. K. Chesterton