Money
220 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 192 from other voices.
Other voices on Money
- Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So, while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house, but not a home, a companion, but not a friend.
- Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.Ayn RandSourced
- Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.Carl SandburgSourced
- Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
- Money isn't everything ...but it ranks up there with Air and Oxygen.
- Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do.
- Money spent on ourselves may be a millstone about the neck; spent on others it may give us wings like eagles.
- Money that is obtained without effort is spent without conscience.
- My father told me that when you're working, don't stop to count your money.PeléSourced
- My greatest skill has been to want little.
- My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
- Nay, sure, Sir, it is better to LIVE rich than to DIE rich.
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend
- Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
- Never depend on a single income. Make an investment to create a second source.
- Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.Billy RoseSourced
- Never let go of integrity, generosity, and love, for these, coupled with energy, will lift you into the truly prosperous state.
- Never risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
- No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
- No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.Samuel JohnsonSourced
- Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
- Not money, not position, but power is what we want; and character is greater than any occupation or profession.
- Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing; but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
- Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering. Nothing — not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we’re going to survive with dignity.Audrey HepburnCommonly attributed
- One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.Iain M. BanksSourced
- Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible; a man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.
- Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.
- Poverty is very good in poems, but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons, but very bad in practical life.
- Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
- Public sentiment will come to be, that the man who dies rich dies disgraced.
- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
- Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
- Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.Francis BaconSourced
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
- Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
- Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.Francis BaconCommonly attributed
- Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.