Money Quotes

Money quotes are many and varied. Some are humorous, some very serious. Among these quotes about money you find many famous quotes and also quotes by Anonymous (who sometimes seems to be the most famous of all in the world of quotes).

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Money Quotes A

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

- Harry Lauder

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

- Everett Dirksen

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

- T. Boone Pickens

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

- Mark Twain

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

- Jane Austen

A penny saved is a penny earned.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- W.C. Fields

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

- Lana Turner

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

- Jonathan Swift

After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.

- Pam Shaw

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler

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

- Robert Collier

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

As I started getting rich, I started thinking, 'what the hell am I going to do with all this money?'... You have to learn to give.

- Ted Turner

Money Quotes A by Anonymous

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. - Anonymous

Money Quotes B

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. - William A. Ward

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. - Magic Johnson

Money Quotes C

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Money Quotes D

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

- Alexandre Dumas fils

Don't just work for the money..that will bring only limited satisfaction. - Kathy Ireland

Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are.

- James W. Frick

Money Quotes E

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

- Robert Orben

Money Quotes F

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. - Barack Obama For I don't care too much for money, / For money can't buy me love.

- The Beatles

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use more gold begets.

- William Shakespeare

Money Quotes G

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. - Samuel Johnson

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . . . to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

- John D. Rockefeller, 1905

Money Quotes G by Anonymous

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, Sing as if no one is listening, Love as if you have never been hurt, and Dance as if no one is watching

- Anonymous

Money Quotes H

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- Lawana Blackwell

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

- Henry Ward Beecher

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Money Quotes H by Anonymous

He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.

- Anonymous

Money Quotes I

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

- Mark Twain

I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.

- Dave Ramsey

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

- Themistocles

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

- Joe Louis

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”

- Robert Bosch

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

- Jackie Mason

I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner. - Jim Cramer I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on. - Sarah Beeny

I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

- Mr T.

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That’s what I think philanthropy is about.

- Lee Iacocca

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

- Colonel Sanders

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

- Tre cool

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. - Andrew Carnegie

I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don’t think the derogatory ‘‘managed relationships’’. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can’t be money, and it should not be money. - Anil Ambani

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I’m not getting paid astronomical dollars; it’s truly for the love of the game of basketball. - Michael Jordan

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That’s what I think philanthropy is about. - Lee Iacocca

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

- Mignon McLaughlin

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

- Pablo Picasso

I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy. - Wayne Huizenga

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

- George Bernard Shaw

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. - Francis Bacon

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

-Henry Ford

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

- Aristotle Onassis

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

- J. Paul Getty

If you do the right job then money will come to you. Because people who need you will request, will ask for you, will attract you, and will be willing to pay you for your services.

- Jose Silva

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

- James Goldsmith

If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.

- Dorothy Parket

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. - Ray Kroc

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

- Benjamin Franklin

In business, you’re trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it’s a lot different, because the bottom line isn’t how you can make more money or get a better return, it’s helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward. - Lee Iacocca

In the early days, I didn’t have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn’t get good people. I got nice people, but I didn’t get good employees. - Louise Hay

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

- Sam Ewing

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

- Stuart Wilde

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

- Groucho Marx

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

- French proverb

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

- Oscar Wilde

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

- George Washington Carver

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 that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

- George Lorimer

It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages. - Henry Ford

Money Quotes I by Anonymous

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy

- Anonymous

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.

- Anonymous

Money Quotes L

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

- Ken Hakuta

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

- George Bernard Shaw

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

- Mother Teresa

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

- Izaak Walton

Money Quotes M

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

- Daniel Quinn

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

- Leo Rosten

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

- Coco Chanel

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

- Helen Gurney Brown

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

- Woody Allen

Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money. - Takafumi Horie

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

- Francis Bacon

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

- Ayn Rand

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- J. Paul Getty

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

- Dan Millman

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

- Henry David Thoreau

Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control. - Robert G. Allen

Money is only used for two things. One, it’s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.

- Bob Proctor

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

- Rebecca Johnson

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty--to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

- de Gourmont

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

- Jim Rohn

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

- Zig Ziglar

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

- Henrik Ibsen

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.

- Owen Laughlin

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

- Donald Trump

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

- Richard Friedman

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.

- Mike Phillips

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money’s going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money’s going to make you a better person.

- Bob Proctor

Money's only important when you don't have any. - Sting

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

- Scott Westerfield

My father used to say, “You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.” How to give something back, that’s the tough part in life. - Lee Iacocca

My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different. - Simon Cowell

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

- Errol Flynn

Money Quotes M by Anonymous

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

- Anonymous

Money Quotes N

Never spend your money before you have it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

- Marian Wright Edelman

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

- Louis Sabin

Money Quotes O

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

- George Eliot

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

- Oscar Wilde

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

- Ted Turner

Money Quotes P

People first, then money, then things. - Suze Orman

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

Money Quotes R

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

- Menander

Money Quotes S

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

- Fannie Hurst

Success makes success, like money makes money.

- Sebastian Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Money Quotes T

The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn.. people earning a million dollars a year can have no money and.. People earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It's not what you earn, it's what you spend. - Paul Clitheroe

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

- Sir Henry Taylor

The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich.. - Felix Dennis

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

- H.L. Mencken

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

- Thomas Jefferson

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

- Charles Schwab

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

- Evan Esar

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

- Mike Tatum

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

- Edith Wharton

The only way of making money is for effort. The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, "I'm doing this to make money." And I've actually on three occasions lost significant sums. I have made wealth when I've actually made a contribution to something, when I've done something I thought I could do better than somebody else or have done something better than somebody else does it.

- Kerry Stokes

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. - Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

- Kim Hubbard

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

- Author Unknown

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

- Russian Proverb

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

- Frank Hubbard

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

- Coco Chanel

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn. - Paul Clitheroe

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

- Jack Yelton

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

- Stuard Wilde

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. - Adrew Carnegie

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas.. more than money.. are the real currency for success. - Eli Broad

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

- Ann Radcliffe

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

- Colonel Sanders

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

- Kahlil Gibran

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

- Jim Rohn

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Money Quotes T by Anonymous

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

- Anonymous

Money Quotes W

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

- Ted Turner

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much

- Ronald Reagan

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

- Dave Ramsey

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

- Bob Proctor

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

- Arthur Hoppe

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

- James Russell Lowell

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

- Oprah Winfrey

“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

- Julia Cameron

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Voltaire

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

- Bo Derek

Money Quotes Y

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

- Garth Brooks

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

- Maya Angelou

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. - Samuel Johnson

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

- Lynn Johnston

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

- Thomas Wolfe

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

- Oprah Winfrey

These were money quotes I liked best. I chose not to put the very negative money quotes on this site - I am sure we all need encouragement more than anything else. Of course some of the quotes have been said with tongue in cheek, so take them as such.

And of course if I find fun money quotes in the future, I will be adding them here.

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