Money Sayings and Quotes

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin


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


Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Richard M. DeVos


Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandella


The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain


A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift


Do what you love and the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar


Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand


If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker


Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.
Will Rogers


You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.
Tennesse Williams


Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Voltaire


Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
George Lorimer


If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford


I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
Malcolm Forbes


The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
Anonymous


Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan


Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump


You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou


Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Jim Rohn


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


Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg


It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.
Billy Idol


The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Frank Hubbard


Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson


They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile


When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
John Wesley


Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.
Michael Leboeuf


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


I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch


Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Kahlil Gibran


When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.
Artemus Ward


Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
P.T. Barnum


If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Simone Weil


Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
D.H. Lawrence


Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn


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


It is my opinion that a man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.
Nathaniel Hawthorne


It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus


There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel


Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Helen Gurley Brown


Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
Jackie Mason


The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn


Money is the best deodorant.
Elizabeth Taylor


Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx


Money grows on the tree of persistence.
Japanese Proverb


Share: