Money
220 quotes: 28 by Keith Craft, 192 from other voices.
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- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
- Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
- Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.William LowndesSourced
- Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
- Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigour in the body.
- The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
- The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.Louis RukeyserSourced
- The conviction is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck; in other words, that a man's success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry, to his attention to small things.
- The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
- The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, involving the necessity of going on in the same course, debt following debt, as lie follows lie.
- The greatest wealth isn’t having everything you want. It’s realizing how little you actually need.
- The larger the income, the harder it is to live within it.
- The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.
- The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer than he.
- The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
- The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. The middle way is, justice to ourselves and others.
- The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
- The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
- The shortest road to riches lies through contempt of riches.
- The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
- The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
- The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words,--industry and frugality.
- There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
- There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
- There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
- There is no greater evil in covetousness than its ingratitude.
- There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on reflection; and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession.
- This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. KennedySourced
- Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go.
- To possess money is very well; it may be a most valuable servant; to be possessed by it, is to be possessed by a devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
- Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.
- True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go.
- Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice.Michel de MontaigneSourced
- Ultimately, there's one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Nobody can take away what you've got in yourself, and everybody has potential they haven't used yet.
- Wasted time is worse than wasted money.
- Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
- Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.
- We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
- We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through what we refuse and keep.
- We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.