Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Money

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Carson, Johnny

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

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

Fielding, Henry

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

10.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

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

Kin Hubbard

13.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

17.

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

Proverb, Japanese

18.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

22.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

23.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

24.

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

25.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

26.

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

27.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

30.

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

Ken Hakuta

31.

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

Orben, Robert

32.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

33.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Fulghum, Robert

35.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

36.

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

Davenport, Rita

37.

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

Plutarch

38.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

40.

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

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

43.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

44.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

45.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

46.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

47.

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.

48.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

49.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Buffett, Warren