Money Quotes - Page 23

• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Business

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.72, Cosimo Classics

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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Funny, Taken

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• 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

  Friendship, Sweet, Inspirational Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Hands, People

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• Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, Pay, Bills

  'Solution' (1847)

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• We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

  Art Hoppe

  Change, Legends, These Days

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• 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

  Inspirational, Children, Selfish

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• When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Men, Busy, Making Money

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• A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Adults, Harm

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• Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Mind, Important, Youth

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• Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pounds, Want

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• Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

  Seneca the Younger

  Party, Long, Giving

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• Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

  Robert Herrick

  Fighting, Silver, Force

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.136

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• Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.
  [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores,
  Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

  Ovid

  Men, Office, Gains

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• Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
  [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

  Juvenal

  Tears, Lost

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• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

  Henry Ford

  Morning, Believe, Nwo

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• I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, White Man, Giving

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• I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

  Pablo Picasso

  Wealth, Poor, Persons

  "Picasso: style and meaning".

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• Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Names, Way

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 420 (Perjury)

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• What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

  Henny Youngman

  Being Happy, Silly, Use

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Happy, Teacher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

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• People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

  Joan Rivers

  Happiness, Funny Life, Memorable

  "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.

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• Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Roots, Greatest Wealth, Economic Value

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• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  J. Paul Getty

  Smell, Saving, Financial

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