Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sanders, Col. Harland

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Blotnick, Srully

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Spader, James

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

Jonathan Swift

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

10.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Clark, Frank A.

12.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

13.

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

G. K. Chesterton

14.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

15.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

16.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

21.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Lucian

25.

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

Jackson, Glenda

26.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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.

30.

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.

31.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

32.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

33.

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

Starr, Roger

34.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

35.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

36.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

39.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

40.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

42.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

43.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

44.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

46.

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

Buffett, Warren

47.

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

Jackie Mason

48.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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.

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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