Motivational Quotes

Money

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Money

1.

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

Rolland, Romain

2.

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

Proverb, Japanese

3.

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

Getty, J. Paul

4.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

5.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

6.

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

Lucian

7.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

8.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

9.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Ken Hakuta

12.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

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

Benjamin Franklin

14.

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

Edith Wharton

15.

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

Getty, J. Paul

16.

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.

Zimet, Martin

17.

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

Sir Thomas More

18.

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

Davenport, Rita

19.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

20.

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

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Spader, James

25.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

28.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

30.

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.

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

Branson, Richard

34.

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

Plutarch

35.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

36.

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.

37.

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.

38.

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

Blotnick, Srully

39.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

40.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

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

42.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

43.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

44.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

Bodie, Walford

46.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

47.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

49.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

50.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens