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-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Agur said, “Give me neither poverty nor riches”; and this will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our incomes should be like our shoes: if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
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
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. … .
—John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) English Economist
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.
—Stephen Vizinczey (b.1933) Hungarian-born Canadian Novelist, Literary Critic, Author
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
—Earl Wilson (1907–87) American Broadway Gossip Columnist
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
—Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
One penny on land is better than ten on the sea.
—Danish Proverb
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
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
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupaton.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and three pence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.
—Unknown
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st American President
Thought, not money, is the real business capital, and if you know absolutely that what you are doing is right, then you are bound to accomplishment it in due season.
—Harvey Samuel Firestone (1868–1938) American Industrialist
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
—F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.
—Unknown
The love of money is the root of all evil.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
—Austin O’Malley (1858–1932) American Aphorist, Ophthalmologist
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan (1918–2002) Irish Writer, Comedian
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
—B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher
There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist
The money men make lives after them.
—Samuel Butler
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
—Norman O. Brown (1913–2002) American Philosopher
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
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
—William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
—Don Marquis (1878–1937) American Humorist, Journalist, Author
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
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.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
—Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse
There are more important things in life than a little money, and one of them is a lot of money.
—Anonymous
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but money answereth all things.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.
—Unknown
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
—William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister
Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
All our money has a moral stamp. It is coined over again in an inward mint. The uses we put it to, the spirit in which we spend it, give it a character which is plainly perceptible to the eye of God.
—Thomas Starr King (1824–64) American Unitarian Minister