Whether it’s for a little inspiration or a better understanding there have been some good quotes regarding money over the years. The following are 42 of the best quotes gathered from around the web.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ~ John Ruskin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~ Aristotle Onassis
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ~ Jonathan Swift
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. ~ Bob Hope
A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end. ~ Billy Idol
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is. ~ Paul Harvey
Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it. ~ Frank A. Clark
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. ~ Carl Karcher
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it. ~ Curtis Carlson
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. ~ Marya Mannes
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ~ Lana Turner
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. ~ Mother Teresa
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. ~ Swami Vivekananda
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. ~ Will Smith
Never spend your money before you have earned it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” ~ Groucho Marx
“Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“I don’t care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I’m here because I want to be with you. But if I didn’t, all the money in the world wouldn’t have changed my feelings for you.” ~ Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.” ~ Sophocles, Antigone
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” ~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“Money follows art. Money wants what it can’t buy. Class and talent. And remember while there’s a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.” ~ Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.” ~ Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.” ~ Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. ~ Ted Turner, attributed, The Quotable Billionaire
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. ~ Barack Obama, speech, Jul. 12, 2006
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion. ~ Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire
Money … is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse–very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity. ~ Dave Ramsey, Financial Peace Revisited
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. ~ Berthold Auerbach
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. ~ James Baldwin
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
“Money can’t buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy.” ~ Lord Mancroft
“When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.” ~ Kin Hubbard
“Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.” ~ Adams, Joey
“Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.” ~ Armour, J. Ogden
“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.” ~ Behn, Aphra
“The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.” ~ Blotnick, Srully
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