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Archive of entries posted on April 2009

Money Quotes and Sayings

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain

The goal is to win. It’s not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don’t want to throw my money away, but it’s really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Roman Abramovich

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tre Cool

We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn

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

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Ann Radcliffe

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.

Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.

The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
Mad Magazine

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Gloria Steinem

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz

It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it’s a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.
Erica Baxter

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. Jack Yelton

Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.
William Somerset Maugham

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens

Work like you don’t need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching.
Aurora Greenway

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

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

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

Laws go where dollars please.
Portuguese proverb

One dollar for eternal happiness? I’d be happier with the dollar.
Monty Burns

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn

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

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

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

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
Pam Shaw

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

God makes, and apparel shapes: but it’s money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.
Sarah Beeny

What good is money if it can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?
Monty Burns

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves

Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty .
Latin proverb

Inflation is determined by money supply growth.
Roger Bootle

Endless money forms the sinews of war.
Cicero

Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon

We believe the American people can spend their money better than the government can spend it.
George Bush

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
Indian Proverb