Motivational Quotes

Money

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jackson, Glenda

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Jackie Mason

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

Rolland, Romain

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

11.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

12.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

13.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

14.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

19.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

20.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

23.

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

24.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

25.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

26.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

29.

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

Milligan, Spike

30.

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.

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

33.

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

34.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

36.

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

Austen, Jane

37.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

38.

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

Spader, James

39.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

40.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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.

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

Vaughan, Bill

43.

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.

44.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

45.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

46.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

47.

Money is just a way of keeping score.