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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