Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Money

The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American Businessperson

When money speaks the truth is silent.
Russian Proverb

Spend, and God will send.
English Proverb

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–95) British Statesman, Writer, Politician

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

Penny wise is often pound foolish.
French Proverb

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.
Robertson Davies (1913–95) Canadian Novelist, Playwright, Essayist

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
William Shenstone (1714–63) British Poet, Landscape Gardener

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.
Tim Ferriss (b.1977) American Self-help Author

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

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) British Essayist, Caricaturist, Novelist

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn’t any.
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher

I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Money is the symbol of duty. It is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted.
Samuel Butler

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer

The fortune of this world is like a wheel with two buckets, the full becomes empty and the empty full.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.
Roger Babson (1875–1967) American Economist

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