Money
220 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 192 from other voices.
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- If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
- If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.
- If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Edmund BurkeSourced
- If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
- If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
- If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So you will have calm days, drowsy nights, and all the good business you have now, and none of the bad.
- If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
- If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone.
- If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
- If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.
- If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
- In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
- In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
- In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
- Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.
- Investing in yourself is the most important investment you will ever make in your life... There's no financial investment that will ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what is going to really provide economic freedom... it's those skill sets that really make that happen.
- It's no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money.Herman Mankiewicz and Orson WellesCommonly attributed
- Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
- Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret.
- Live within your income. Always have something saved at the end of the year. Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll never go far wrong.
- Live within your income and save so that you can invest.
- Living within your income eliminates worry and a great many other things.
- Luck, says an American writer, is ever waiting for something to turn up; Labour, with keen eye and strong will, always turns up something.
- Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
- Many a fortune has slipped through a man's fingers because he was engaged in too many occupations at a time.
- Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
- Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
- Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
- Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
- Men know not how great a revenue frugality is.
- Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
- Mental and spiritual independence matter little if the things we own in the physical world end up owning us.
- Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
- Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
- Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has value to others.
- Money is a great servant but a bad master.
- Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
- Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
- Money is like muck (manure), not good except it be spread.Francis BaconCommonly attributed