MONEY QUOTES VI

quotations about money

Money ... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse--very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

DAVE RAMSEY

Financial Peace Revisited

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There are too many King Midases loose in the world. They do not have the Midas touch: they have the Midas look. They see nothing but money.... The universe, to them, is a balance-sheet: their minds are adding-machines: their hearts beat in tune with the ticker.

BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON

More Power to You


Having money is a way of being free of money.

ALBERT CAMUS

A Happy Death

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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

Byways of Blessedness

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The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Money is the seal and stamp of success.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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For me, money is easy to come by. I enjoy spending money. I rarely worry about money. Money flows in and out of my life. my life is too short to worry about money. I always have enough money to be comfortable.

TERRAN JAMES

Money and Success is Mind Over Matter


Money alone sets all the world in motion.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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To despise money, one must have plenty of it.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, February 2, 1938

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I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off.

ALEX GARLAND

The Beach

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Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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All my money is tied up in Skee ball tickets.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, August 4, 2011

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Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham

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Money is part of the private capital of an individual only if and so far as it constitutes a means by which the individual in question can obtain other capital goods.

LUDWIG VON MISES

Theory of Money and Credit

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Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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'Tis money that begets money.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

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Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

JOSEPH GOEBBELS

"Nationalsozialisten aus Berlin und aus dem Reich", Voelkischer Beobachter, February 4, 1927


Of what use is wealth to him who neither gives nor enjoys it? Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. There is no man more deserving of pity than he who spends his whole life amassing money, without making any use of it.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays, vol. II


Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

FRED ROGERS

"Mister Rogers' Money Tips", The Motley Fool, January 20, 2006

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