Money Quotes
  1. What maintains one vice would bring up two children -Benjamin Franklin;
  2. I haven’t heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost. -Kin Hubbard
  3. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses -Cato the Elder
  4. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings -Eric Hoffer
  5. The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. -Lao-Tse
  6. I sleep more soundly at night when there’s money in the house than when there isn’t. -P.K. Shaw
    Fall seven times, stand up eight. -Japanese Proverb
  7. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -Richard Bach
  8. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. -Old saying
  9. One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendel Holmes
  10. The confirmed gambler said he only kept on gambling because he was too old to gambol. -W.G.P.
  11. To produce an income tax return that has any depth to it, any feeling, one must have Lived - and Suffered. -Frank Sullivan
  12. He that expecteth nothing is never disappointed -W.G.P.
  13. People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  14. Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small. You don’t know where it can lead -Julia Morgan
  15. The couple with slender finances who decided that two could live as cheaply as one, soon agree that the health specialists are correct in saying people eat too much. -W.G.P.
  16. The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does it with a broom and shovel. -Elbert Hubbard
  17. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France
  18. You must do the things you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt
  19. You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. -Harry Firestone
  20. Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. -Unknown
  21. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
  22. Some people will do anything for money - even work. -P.K. Shaw
  23. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
  24. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke
  25. The first wealth is health. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  26. Nothing is as irritating as the fellow that chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you. -Kin Hubbard
  27. Never buy a thing you don’t want merely because it is dear. -Oscar Wilde
  28. Income is a fixed sum of money that is hard to live within, but harder to live without. -W.G.P.
  29. Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. -Swedish Proverb
  30. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -Unknown
  31. The happiest time in any man’s life is when he is in hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. -Josh Billings
  32. When you attempt to live within your income, the outcome is usually a come down. -P.K. Shaw
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt
  33. He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. -Unknown
  34. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. -Henry David Thoreau
  35. Without a struggle, there can be no progress. -Frederick Douglass
  36. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry Kaiser
  37. Budget: A mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. -A.A. Latimer
  38. Our body cells renew themselves while we sleep; if only our wallets would do the same! -P.K. Shaw
  39. Vacations may put you in the pink but probably leave you in the red. -W.G.P.
  40. Money talks; the secret is to hold it long enough to hear what it says. -W.G.P.
  41. The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax. -Albert Einstein
  42. The love of money is the root of all evil. -The Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10
  43. Lack of money is the root of all evil. -George Bernard Shaw
  44. If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. -Norman Douglas
  45. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? -Anonymous
  46. Knowledge is power, but money pays for the fuel. -P.K. Shaw
  47. Women make good accountants; their natural curiosity helps them when looking for a balance. -P.K. Shaw
  48. When you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. -Peter Drucker
  49. Nobody ever returns a cheque - except the bank -P.K. Shaw
  50. One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. -Anonymous
  51. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of
  52. feathers with the least amount of hissing. -Jean Baptiste Colbert
  53. A fool and his money never lack invitations. -W.G.P.
  54. Some people’s money is merited and other people’s is inherited. -Ogden Nash
  55. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -Joan Borysenko
  56. Want a thing long enough, and you don’t. -Chinese proverb
  57. Your children need your presence more than your presents. -Jesse Jackson
  58. Don’t buy the house; buy the neighbourhood. -Russian proverb
  59. Money will never go to people who urgently need it. -Old Chinese proverb
  60. Change is good, but dollars are better -Anonymous
  61. You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -Dolly Parton
  62. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. -Harvey Fierstein
  63. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -Russell Baker
  64. Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they man not be possessed. -Confucius
  65. Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. -Anwar El-Sadat
  66. It’s astonishing how many people equate the simple possession of wealth with intelligence and dignity. -Anonymous
  67. Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up. -Jesse Jackson
  68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Goethe
  69. Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. -Anonymous
  70. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Unknown
  71. 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
  72. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. -Ken Hakuta
  73. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. -Quentin Crisp
  74. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -Woody Allen
  75. It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours. -Harry S. Truman
  76. You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? -Steven Wright
  77. Live simply that others might simply live. -Elizabeth Seaton
  78. One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase -Harold Wilson
  79. Wisdom is the wealth of the wise. -Ecclesiasticus
  80. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -Chinese Proverb
  81. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? -Don Marquis
  82. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -P.J. O’Rourke
  83. Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money. -Unknown 13-year-old
  84. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. -James Baldwin
  85. Money is like muck, not good except it be spread -Francis Bacon
  86. Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. -Aphra Behn
  87. Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money -Gerald Brenan
  88. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. -Bob Hope
  89. No man’s credit is as good as his money -Edgar Watson Howe
  90. Every exit is an entry somewhere. -Tom Stoppard
  91. It’s always too early to quit. -Norman Vincent Pearle
  92. A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. -Anonymous
  93. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Confucius
  94. When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any. -Edgar Watson Howe
  95. Friends are treasures. -Horace Bruns
  96. The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ‘Cheque enclosed’ -Dorothy Parker
  97. Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites. -Thomas Fuller
  98. I think the harder you work, the more luck you have. -R. David Thomas
  99. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. -Joyce Brothers
  100. The more horse sense a fellow has, the less he bets on them. -Kin Hubbard
  101. To be upset over what yo don’t have is to waste what you do have. -Unknown
  102. There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory ofsome temptation we resisted. -James Branch Cabell
  103. Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I’ll be at the airport. -Graffiti
  104. The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. -George Bernard Shaw
  105. Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them. -Napoleon Bonaparte
  106. Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom. -W.G.P.
  107. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. -H. Jackson Brown
  108. I don’t mind inflation if it means I go up when I die. -P.K. Shaw
  109. A duty-free store - where you go broke saving money. -W.G.P.
  110. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. -W. Somerset Maugham
  111. Anyone pretending he has no interest in money is either a fool or a knave. -Leslie Ford
  112. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. -Edith Wharton
  113. I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it that I hate most. -Katherine Mansfield
  114. We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. -Gloria Steinem
  115. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell
  116. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. -Richard Bach
  117. We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. -Gary Collins
  118. Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion. -Vera Caspary
  119. Eighty percent of success is showing up. -Woody Allen
  120. The harder you work, the luckier you get. -McAlexander
  121. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
  122. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. -Margaret Walker
  123. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers
    The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes
  124. Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone. -Mae West
  125. I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. -Kate Seredy
  126. As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. -Kate Smiley
  127. Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. -Virginia Woolf
  128. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -Henry Ford
  129. The best career advice given to the young is, ‘Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.’ -Katharine Whitehorn
  130. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. -Peter Drucker
  131. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  132. A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. -Anonymous
  133. 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
  134. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -Henry Ford
  135. I’m proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -Arthur Godfrey