Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Lucian

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Johnson, Ben

10.

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.

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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.

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

14.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

15.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

17.

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

Lynn Johnston

18.

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

19.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

20.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

21.

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

Egan, Sir John

22.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

23.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

24.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

25.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

26.

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

Jackson, Glenda

27.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

28.

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

29.

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

Williams, Tennessee

30.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

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

Rolland, Romain

34.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

35.

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

Quant, Mary

36.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Buffett, Warren

38.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

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

Milligan, Spike

41.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

42.

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

43.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

45.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

46.

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

Spader, James

47.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

49.

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

Edith Wharton

50.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.