Wednesday 17 April 2019

Money - Quotes

Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations. - Lewis R. Korns

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil. - Sophocles

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. - Charles Dickens

The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket. - Unknown

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world. - David Gerrold

The miser who clings to his money and will not give up any of it because of the pleasure which its possession affords him cannot have any of the material comforts of life. He lives in continual want and discomfort in spite of all his wealth. - James Allen

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went. - Unknown

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this – they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts. - William Hazlitt

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. - George Bernard Shaw

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. - Ivan Panin

To despise money, one must have plenty of it. - Cesare Pavese

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like. - Dave Ramsey

We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good. - Charles Edward Jerningham

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save. - Henry Ford

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich. - Tom Robbins

When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool – for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely – and be generous with it to accomplish things of value. - John C. Maxwell

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. - Jean de La Bruyere

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. - Tennessee Williams

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. - Dave Ramsey

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