Famous Quotes about Money (271 Quotations)

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

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.

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.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.