Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan (1918–2002) Irish Writer, Comedian
Who would you be without the thought “I need more money to be safe?” You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don’t ever need more money than you have.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
What our country really needs most are those things which money cannot buy.
—William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.
—Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–95) French Dramatist, Novelist
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.
—Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) American Spirituality Writer
I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) British Historian, Poet, Critic
When a fellow says it hain’t the money but the principle o’ the thing, it’s th’ money.
—Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward) (1834–67) American Humorist, Writer
Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
—Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist
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
A man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dung heap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Anywhere in the world salt is good to eat; anywhere in the world money is good to use.
—Chinese Proverb
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.
—Sidney Madwed (1926–2013) American Poet, Author
Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.
—Italian Proverb
Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
—Ayn Rand (1905–82) Russian-born American Novelist, Philosopher
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
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
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
—Don Marquis (1878–1937) American Humorist, Journalist, Author
Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It’s equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
There is a vast difference in one’s respect for the man who has made himself, and the man who has only made his money.
—Dinah Craik (1826–87) British Novelist, Essayist, Poet
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
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
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
All love has something of blindness in it, but the love of money especially.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
I can’t afford to pay them any other way.
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist
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
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
—Russell Baker (1925–2019) American Journalist, Humorist, Television Host
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer
Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.
—Satchel Paige (1906–82) American Baseball Player
The only wealth is life.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
It is far better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but money answereth all things.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
—P. T. Barnum (1810–91) American Businessperson, Entertainer
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
—Louis Agassiz (1807–73) Swiss-American Naturalist, Glaciologist
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
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
—Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) (1915–77) American Columnist, Author
I haven’t got as much money as some folks, but I’ve got as much impudence as any of them, and that’s the next thing to money.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Money was made not to command our will, but all our lawful pleasures to fulfill; shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey—the horse doth with the horseman run away.
—Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
—George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet
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