No amount of money can make others speak well of you behind
your back.
— Chinese Proverb
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion
dollars in one year… It's very character building.
— Steve Jobs
One of the great astonishments of my life has been the
discovery that actually you don't need money to travel. You need enough credentials to get paid
to travel.
— Gregg Levoy
There's only one thing money won't buy, and that's poverty.
— Joe E. Lewis
Money is important for retirement in that it is a means of survival, a
foundation for comfort, and a tool to accomplish some of your life’s goals. It can’t guarantee happiness or
health or love, however. And regardless of how much you have set aside, money cannot buy creative
fulfillment. The key to a happy retirement is to have enough money to live on, but not enough to worry
about.
— from the International Bestseller How
to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free(Over 425,000 copies sold and published in 11
langauges)
No matter how much money you have, no matter how much opportunity you have, no matter how good-looking
you are or whatever, if you don’t have gratitude you’re still not going to be a happy individual and you’re
not going to be much of an encourager and inspire other people.
— Joe Polish
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of
art
. . . Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
— Andy Warhol
Most women would rather be out of money than out of fashion.
— Unknown wise person
The dollar can never fall as low as the means some people adopt to get
it.
— Unknown wise person
When it comes to making more money, most people look at the world and see
the same opportunity they’ve seen before: typically,
a job. Because they don’t awaken their mind and expand their vision, they don’t see other opportunities.
Yet opportunities do exist. So how do you change your thinking so you can see them? One way to jolt the
brain out of its preconceived category thinking is to bombard it with new experiences.
— Joe Vitale
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
— Katherine Whitehorn
Prosperity has no power over adversity.
— Publilus Syrus
Happiness is the ability to retire early and to spend all of my kids'
inheritance before I die!
— Unknown wise person
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern
its acquisition.
— George Clason
Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your
parents are, or what you do . . . it is a matter of managing your money properly.
— Noel Whittaker
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Money isn't everything, your health is the other ten per cent.
— Lillian Day
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my
life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was
prosperous.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
— Dorothy Parker
I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was
24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the
money.
— Steve Jobs
The nice thing about money is that it never clashes with anything that you
are wearing.
— Unknown wise person
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
— Mason Cooley
Working long and hard for money does not guarantee that one will either
deal with it rationally or enjoy life more fully because of having it. Many industrious individuals
obviously do neither.
— from Money Madness by Herb Goldberg and Robert T. Lewis
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
— Unknown wise person
Clearly, true prosperity is living easily and happily whether you have
lots of money or not. I have had the fortune of being on both sides of the fence. I have been broke, over
$30,000 in debt, and have had to borrow money to pay the rent. At one time I even had the sobering
experience of sleeping in my car for two cold winter nights when the temperature was -21º F. Extremely
cold, of course, but this is still far from the bottom.
— from 101
Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting
It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than
over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter,
sometimes at least it is an alternative.
— John Maynard Keynes
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not
vital.
— Mary Quant
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth
all things.
— Hebrew Bible. Ecclesiastes 10:19
Thy money perish with thee.
— New Testament
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it.
— Cicero
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know
that it is.
— Oscar Wilde
It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing
nearly everything, money is handy.
— Groucho Marx
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He doesn't have
any.
— Ed Howe
Life is too short to balance a checkbook.
— Howard Ogden
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly
salary.
— Fred Wilson
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
— Japanese proverb
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens
Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
— Benjamin Franklin
What if everything [in life] is an illusion and nothing exists? In that
case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
— Woody Allen
Pay what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know.
— Benjamin Franklin
Retirement: The time in your life when time is no longer money.
— Unknown happy retiree
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you don't care about the people around you or treat them
as if they don't matter, you'll stop the flow of possibilities. This includes your financial prosperity.
Creating a vehicle for good that you feel passionate about is the final step toward true prosperity.
— Joe Vitale
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompense the pangs of vice.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
— Henry David Thoreau
People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
— Albert Hubbard
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly . . . the person who can accumulate the most assets
wins the game.
— Noel Whittaker
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
— W. C. Fields
Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
— Mario Puzo
Money makes the world go around — that and other stupid cliches.
— Unknown Wise Person
The only thing wealth does for some people is make them worry about losing it.
— Comte de Rivoral
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
— Michel de Montaigne
Everyone likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
— Arthur Miller
We often buy money very much too dear.
— William Makepeace Thackberay
What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off
everyone you meet.
— Richard Branson
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid
enough to want it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.
— Ogden Nash
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
— Henry Fielding
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
— Epicurus
He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy — a
dinosaur.
— Homer Simpson
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it pays for the illusion that it
does.
— Unknown wise person
Believe it or not, money can't buy happiness. No, this isn't a strange
joke. Believe that money can buy happiness and the joke's on you.
— from Life's Secret Handbook
He without benefit of scuples.
His fun and money soon quadruples.
— Ogden Nash
The wages of sin are unreported.
— Unknown wise person
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
— Mohandas K. Gandhi
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private
conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his
talent or his friends, variations on the answer "Yes, but I did it for the money," satisfy all but the most
tiresome objections.
— Lewis H. Lapham
All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for a loaf of bread.
— Josh Billings
Honor before profit; where practical.
— Gerald Barzan
The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first
dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
— Martha Mason
There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having . . . money in
the bank.
— Tom Robbins
Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real
friends., the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to
America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.
— Jaromir Jagr (NHL hockey Player with the Pittsburg Penguins)
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
— Spike Milligan
It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.
— Greek proverb
With money and wine, you will have many friends, but when you are in
trouble, will you see even one?
— Chinese proverb
Friendship and money: oil and water.
— Mario Puzo
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that
sheds its fruit at every breeze.
— Samuel Johnson
Attend no auctions if thou hast no money.
— The Talmud
You can't put your VISA bill on your American express card.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Plenty of people despise money, but few know how to give it away.
— Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
You can never truly give money away as a gift.
— Michael Phillips
The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
— Elizabeth Marbury
The rich know not who is his friend.
— Unknown wise person
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
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
— Merry Browne
Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric.
— Mavis Gallant.
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
— Unknown Wise Person
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— e. e. Cummings
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of
happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
— Clifford Odets
We have a balance of $0.32 in the bank … Which made us four-and-a-half
trillion dollars richer than the federal government.
— Jim Borgman
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
— Arab proverb
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
— Josh Billings
If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
— Benjamin Franklin
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the
arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be
reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on
public assistance.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC
If I had known what it would be like to have it all, I might have been willing to settle for less.
— Lily Tomlin
It's a wise man who lives with money in the bank; it's a fool who dies that way.
— French proverb
Misers amass wealth for those who wish them dead.
— Polish proverb
Misers aren’t fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.
— David Brenner
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the
sand.
— Japanese proverb
With money you're a dragon; without it you're a worm.
— Chinese proverb
Shun anything — shares, property, or the latest hot trend — with recent sharp appreciation. Bubbles
burst. Wait until prices fall and then stabilize. Never buy in a market that is rising or falling fast. In
the short term, stick to safe investments, even if you can only get 5 percent.
— Richard Koch, author of Living the 80/20 Way.
Money is what you make it.
Depending upon who you are — and your frame of mind — money can be anything you want it to be.
Money can be:
• the root of all evil;
• or that which answers all things;
• or something that burns a hole in your pocket;
• or a means to freedom;
• or an interesting concept;
• or even a stupid concept.
Whatever value you place on money — you must take
responsibility for it.
If money is evil to you — you created it being evil.
If money is a problem to you — you created it being a problem.
If money is joy to you — you created this concept.
Take responsibility for your concepts.
And be clear that these are just concepts.
Nothing more and nothing less.
— from Life's Secret
Handbook
Let's spend all our money to buy cool stuff. Later we can sell it all on eBay to pay for our
retirement.
— from Glasbergen cartoon
Most people are too busy earning a living to make any [real] money.
— Joe Karbo
More money seldom solves someone's money problems. Intelligence solves problems.
— Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows
poor by seeming rich.
— Laurence Sterne
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 neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his
money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
— John Barrymore, US actor
