Notable Quotes about Money

• "Remember that time is money." Ben Franklin
• "He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." Ben Franklin
• "These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!" Alexander Pope
• "A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence." Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!" Waldo Emerson
• "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone." Benjamin Franklin
• "Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place." Alexander Pope
• "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." Charles Dickens
• "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area of his life." Billy Graham
• "The money you intend to save draws no interest." Anonymous
• "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul." Henry David Thoreau
• "We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end." Owen D. Young
• "All that we can hold in our dead hands is what we have given away." Sanskrit Proverb
• "A purse is doubly empty when it is full of borrowed money." Anonymous
• "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers." Edmund Burke
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." Albert Einstein
• "Fools can make money. It takes a wise man to tell how to spend it." English Proverb
• "To live with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury . . . to be worthy. . . wealthy, not rich. . . . This is to be my symphony." William Henry Channing
• "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust." Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." George Washington
• "Our economy is based upon people wanting more -- their happiness on wanting less." Frank A. Clark
• "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of." Benjamin Franklin
• "They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles." Benjamin Franklin
• "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." Benjamin Franklin
• "Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is." Benjamin Franklin
• "There are two systems of taxation in our country: one for the informed and one for the uninformed." Honorable Learned Hand, US Appeals Court Justice
• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams
• "The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." Ronald Reagan
• "Every man ought to have money on his mind. No man ought to have money on his heart." Unknown
• "If you can't pay as you go, you're going too fast." Unknown
• "More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking where they went." Unknown
• "You should have two financial goals in life: to make a little money first, and then to make a little money last." Unknown
• "When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money. And the person with the money will get some experience." Unknown
• "How to handle money: use common sense. The simplest choices are often the best ones. Impulse is your enemy, time your friend." Unknown