Quotes
Quotes about Money
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do on chewing gum.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." -George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
Never spend your money before you have it.
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
