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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MONEY 3
Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
Gregory Nunn (1955-, American golfer)
One who thinks that money can do everything is likely to do anything for money.
Hasidic Proverb (Sayings of Hasidic origin)
If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.
Vic Oliver
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975, Turkish-born shipping magnate)
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
Robert Orben (1927-, American editor, writer, humorist)
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
It is true that money attracts, but much money repels.
Cynthia Ozick (1928-, American novelist, short-story writer)
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967, American humorous writer)
Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.
Michael Phillips
The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Titus Maccius Plautus (BC 254-184, Roman comic poet)
When the strong box contains no more, both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Sextus Propertius (c.48-c.15 BC, Italian Latin elegiac poet)
It is no disgrace at all to work for money.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
Doctor's faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
When money talks, everyone else is silent.
Cuban Proverb (Sayings of Cuban origin)
The endless saver always lives in poverty.
Danish Proverb (Sayings of Danish origin)
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
Hebrew Proverb (Sayings of Hebrew origin)
Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
Money begets money.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
Some people are masters of money, and some people are slaves of it.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
When money speaks the truth is silent.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish origin)
Buy from people who are desperate, and sell to newlyweds.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Sell publicly and buy privately.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Mary Quant (1936-, British fashion designer)
Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer you greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God, to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American industrialist, philanthropist, founder Exxon)
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American industrialist, philanthropist, founder Exxon)
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
Romain Rolland (1866-1944, French writer)
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
A fool and her money are soon courted.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
Walter Richard Sickert
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Col. Harland Sanders (1890-1980, American businessman, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Money is like sea water. The more we drink, the thirstier we become.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
If I don't need the money, I don't work.
James Spader (1960-, American actor)
Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has value to others.
Deland Stanford
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Starr
Money is always there but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)
It's more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.
Bumper Sticker
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Tertullian (160-240, Roman Christian author and polemicist)
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ecclesiastes 10:19
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The only wealth is life.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.
Marvin Traub (American business executive)
The buck stops here.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump (1946-, American businessman, actor)
From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
Sophie Tucker (1884-1966, Russian-born American singer)
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker (1884-1966, Russian-born American singer)
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine."
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
When I was brought up we never talked about money because there was never enough to furnish a topic of conversation.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
By all means get money, not to hoard, but to spend-to procure employment, liberty, independence, and above all, the power of doing good.
Author Unknown
Dollars and sense should go together.
Author Unknown
If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.
Author Unknown
Love of the right use of money is the root of much good.
Author Unknown
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Author Unknown
Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.
Author Unknown
Money does not necessarily ruin a man. Many millionaire philanthropists learned true charity only after acquiring their millions.
Author Unknown
Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.
Author Unknown
Money is never so honored as when it is being used to educate the young.
Author Unknown
Money talks and often just says, "Good Bye."
Author Unknown
Money talks, but it rarely gives itself away.
Author Unknown
Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.
Author Unknown
Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.
Author Unknown
Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.
Author Unknown
Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.
Author Unknown
Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.
Georgia Witkin
The love of money is the disease which makes men most groveling and pitiful.
Author Unknown
The money you refuse to worthy objects will never do you any good.
Author Unknown
The poor man's budget is full of schemes.
Author Unknown
When money is taken freedom is forsaken.
Author Unknown
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan (1915-1977, American author, journalist)
Money itself won't bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.
Thomas J. Vilord
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Don't ever let economics alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
When I have any money I get rid of it as quickly as possible, lest it find a way into my heart.
John Willey
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
Artemus Ward
It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
There are three kicks in every dollar. One when you make it. One when you save it. One when you give it away. And the last is the biggest of all.
William Allen White (1868-1944, American editor, writer)
Money cannot bring you happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
Stuart Wilde (1946-, British-born American author, lecturer)
The best way to save money is not to lose it.
Les Williams
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
Earl Wilson (1907-1987, American newspaper columnist)
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.
Henny Youngman (1906-1998, American actor, comedian)
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.
Martin Zimet
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
Johann Georg Zimmermann (1957-, German physicist)
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