Money Quotes

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” -- Woody Allen

“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.” -- William Jennings Bryan

“Never spend your money before you have it.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” -- Robert Frost

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” -- Everett Dirksen

“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” -- Robert W. Sarnoff

“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” -- Rebecca Johnson

“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.” -- Michael Pritchard

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” -- Benjamin Franklin

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.” -- Logan Pearsall Smith

“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” -- Kin Hubbard

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” -- Kin Hubbard

“The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.” -- Katharine Whitehorn

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” -- Jonathan Swift

“Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.” -- Henry Fielding

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” -- George Eliot

“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” -- Donald Trump

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.” -- Benjamin Franklin

“He who will not economize will have to agonize.” -- Confucius

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” -- Mark Twain

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.” -- Izaak Walton

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” -- Jane Austen

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” -- Thomas Wolfe

“A man in debt is so far a slave.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” -- Samuel Butler

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” -- Henry Ford

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” -- Norman Vincent Peale