It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
—Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer
What our country really needs most are those things which money cannot buy.
—William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister
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.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
The higher men climb,
the longer their working day.
There are no office hours for leaders.
—James Gibbons (1834–1921) American Catholic Religious Leader, Clergyman
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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
How to make the summer months pass quickly: Borrow money in June, make the note payable in three months, and fall will be here before you know it.
—Common Proverb
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one’s hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.
—Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) English Novelist, Short Story Writer, Dramatist
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 (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Get money first; virtue comes after.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth.
—George M. Humphrey (1890–1970) American Lawyer, Banker
All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn’t be a dull boy.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
One man’s wage rise is another man’s price increase.
—Harold Wilson British Political Leader
Money begets money.
—Italian Proverb
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 (1949–2018) American Writer, Humorist
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Ask thy purse what thou should spend.
—Scottish Proverb
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and it enlivens the other who turns it upon his fellow man.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
The way to stop financial “joy-riding” is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
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.
—Chinese Proverb
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
Money: A dream, a piece of paper on which is imprinted in invisible ink the dream of all the things it will buy, all the trinkets and all the power over others.
—David L. Bazelon (1909–93) American Judge
The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.
—William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister
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