Motivational Quotes

Money

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Money

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Lynn Johnston

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

10.

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

Jane Austen

11.

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

Kin Hubbard

12.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

13.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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.

15.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

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

Clark, Frank A.

20.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

21.

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

Fulghum, Robert

22.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

23.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

24.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

25.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

Ovid

29.

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

30.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

31.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

32.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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

Clason, George S.

35.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

37.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

38.

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

39.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

40.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

Alexander, Scott

42.

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

43.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

49.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

50.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins