Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clark, Frank A.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ernest Haskins

10.

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

Wilde, Stuart

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Clark, Frank A.

13.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

19.

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

20.

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

Getty, J. Paul

21.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

22.

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

Benjamin Franklin

23.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

24.

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.

25.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

26.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

27.

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.

28.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

29.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

31.

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

Lynn Johnston

32.

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

33.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

35.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Bodie, Walford

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

42.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

43.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

44.

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

O'Malley, Austin

45.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

46.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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