Copyright 1985-2008 MCR Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. www.quotations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 MONEY Page 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Essence 1989 Money is just what we use to keep tally. Henry Ford (1863-1947) 1990 Money is the god of our time. Heine (1797-1856) 1991 Money is human happiness in the abstract. Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 1992 Wealth is the product of man's ability to think. Ayn Rand (1905-1982) 1993 Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one. Eugene Debs (1855-1926) 1994 A foundation is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some. Dwight MacDonald (1906-1982) 1995 Money is the poor people's credit card. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) 2. Opposites 1996 A light purse is a heavy curse. Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanac 1997 Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. P. T. Barnum (1810-1891) 1998 With money one may command devils; without it one cannot even summon a man. Chinese Proverb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 MONEY Page 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1999 If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Burke (1729-1797) 2000 To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty. And to be without it is to be ugly, boring, stupid and useless. Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) 2001 Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) 2002 Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with his death as his greatest source of anxiety. John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) 2003 Rich people are just poor people with money. Sister Mary Tricky 2004 You can live well if you're rich and you can live well if you're poor, but if you're poor, it's much cheaper. Andrew Tobias (b. 1947) 2005 If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives. Chinese Proverb "Quotable Business," edited by Louis E. Boone 2006 Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say. But I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it. Jack Paar (b. 1918) 2007 Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 MONEY Page 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2008 It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you. Baron Rothschild (1840-1915) 2009 Money is like promises - easier made than kept. Josh Billings (1815-1885) Josh Billings: His Book 2010 Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into sand. Japanese Proverb 2011 To acquire wealth is not easy, yet to keep it is even more difficult... It is said that wealth is like a viper which is harmless if a man know how to take hold of it; but, if he does not, it will twine around his hand and bite him. Frank K. Houston 2012 Money - in its absence we are coarse; in its presence we are vulgar. Mignon McLaughlin (b. 1918) 2013 The trouble with today's economy is that when a man is rich, it's all on paper. When he's broke, it's cash. Sam Marconi 2014 Gresham's Law: Bad money drives out good money. Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) 2015 Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) 3. Insight 2016 Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Franklin (1706-1790) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 MONEY Page 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2017 A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Mohammed (570-632 A.D.) 2018 People's wealth and worth are very rarely related. Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) 2019 Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has value to others. Leland Stanford (1824-1893) 2020 The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) 2021 The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it. Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) 2022 Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin (1924-1987) 2023 To rail at money, to wax indignant against it, is silly. Money is nothing; its power is purely symbolical. Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty - to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) 2024 Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. Aphra Behn (1640-1689) The Rover 2025 Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except Heaven, and as a universal provider of everything but happiness. Wall Street Journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 MONEY Page 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2026 Money can't buy happiness but it will get you a better class of memories. Ronald Reagan (born 1911) 2027 Just pretending to be rich keeps some people poor. Anonymous 2028 If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man. J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) 2029 Life is short and so is money. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) 2030 The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius (B.C. 551-479) 2031 Money is round. It rolls away. Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) 2032 Money is flat and meant to be piled up. Scottish Proverb 2033 I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. Mike Todd (1907-1958) Newsweek 2034 It is not the volume of money but the activity of money that counts. W. Bourke Cockran Speech 2035 I do everything for a reason, most of the time the reason is money. Suzy Parker (b. 1933) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 MONEY Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2036 Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. Emerson (1803-1882) The Young American 2037 Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan (1915-1977) 2038 Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) 2039 Money alone is only a means; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895) 2040 Where money talks, there are few interruptions. Herbert V. Prochnow (b. 1897) 2041 That money talks I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, "Goodbye." Richard Armour (1906-1989) 2042 Lampis the shipowner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, "My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor." Epictetus (c. 55-135 A.D.) 4. Positive 2043 There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it. Cicero (B.C. 106-4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 MONEY Page 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2044 No man will take counsel, but every man will take money; therefore, money is better than counsel. Swift (1667-1745) 2045 Money alone sets all the world in motion. Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42) Maxims 2046 The sovereign queen of all delights - for her the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) 2047 Bing Crosby was asked by a TV interviewer why he had such a calm, unruffled demeanor. Reaching into his pocket, Bing pulled out a tremendous wad of bills. "That helps!" he replied. Bing Crosby (1903-1977) 2048 With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too. Jewish Proverb 2049 Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 2050 You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income. Johnson (1709-1784) 2051 Money can't buy happiness... But then, happiness can't buy government-insured C.D.'s David Addison "Moonlighting" 2052 I'm tired of Love, I'm still more tired of Rhyme, But money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 MONEY Page 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2053 I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. Sophie Tucker (1884-1966) 2054 Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. Rex Stout (1866-1975) 2055 Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen "Hey, you!" Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) 2056 Nouveau is Better than No Riche at All. Monsieur Marc 2057 Riches cover a multitude of woes. Menander (B.C. 342-291) Fragment 90 2058 The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. Franklin (1706-1790) 2059 Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. Walter Sickert (1860-1942) 5. Negative 2060 If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round. Christina Stead Quoted in "Money Talks" by Robert W. Kent 2061 Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 MONEY Page 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2062 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 concerning them. Matthew Henry (1662-1714) 2063 If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a lifetime of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life. Vic Oliver (1898-1964) 2064 Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them. Ralph Venning 2065 A man without money is like a wolf without teeth. French Proverb "A Treasury of Business Quotations," by Michael Thomsett 2066 The lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 2067 I got what no millionaire's got, I got no money. Gerald F. Lieberman (1923-1986) 2068 I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock. Henny Youngman (b. 1906) 2069 The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. John Foster (1770-1843) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 MONEY Page 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2070 One of the penalties of wealth is that the older you grow, the more people there are in the world who would rather have you dead than alive. C.H.B. Kitchin 2071 If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world? Franklin (1706-1790) 2072 True, you can't take it with you, but then that's not the place where it comes in so handy. Brendon Francis 2073 The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. Antoine de Rivaroli (1753-1801) 2074 Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. Charles Caleb Colton (c. 1780-1832) 2075 Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it. Irish Proverb 2076 Money is not an aphrodisiac; the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. Marya Mannes (b. 1904) 2077 What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to. Bob Dylan (b. 1941) 2078 It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. Lee Segall (b. 1905) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 MONEY Page 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2079 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. Goethe (1749-1832) 2080 Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money. Zimmermann 2081 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Emerson (1803-1882) Work and Days 2082 When a man says money can do anything, that settles it; he hasn't any. Edgar W. Howe (1853-1937) 2083 Organized crime inevitable gravitates to cash. Daniel Seligman Fortune 2084 Why rob banks? That's where the money is. Willie Sutton (1901-1980) 2085 The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. William De Kooning (b. 1904) 6. Advice 2086 Remember, that TIME is money...Remember, that CREDIT is money...Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature...Remember this saying, THE GOOD PAYER IS LORD OF ANOTHER MAN'S PURSE. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare...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. Franklin (1706-1790) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 MONEY Page 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2087 Little to little added, if oft done, In small time makes a good possession. Hesiod (B.C. 800?) Works and Days 2088 It is simple, although not easy, to become a millionaire. Get a part-time job on Saturdays and do it for 10 years. Then take that money and invest it at 12 percent, wait 10 years, and you're a millionaire. However, most people don't want to give up their free time for 10 years. I've been working Saturdays since I was 16. Dr. Jerry Buss (b. 1933) 2089 Save a part of your income and begin now, for the man with a surplus controls circumstances and the man without a surplus is controlled by circumstances. Henry H. Buckley 2090 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 H. Lorimer (1867-1937) 2091 It is better to live rich than to die rich. Johnson (1709-1784) 2092 Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epicurus (B.C. 341-270) 2093 Dollars do better if they are accompanied by sense. Earl Riney (1885-1955) 2094 Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) 2095 Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 MONEY Page 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Poetry & Prose 2096 Money was made not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) Imitations - Tenth Epistle of Horace 2097 Can wealth give happiness? Look round and see What gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more. Young (1683-1765) Love of Fame, Satire V 2098 If happiness on wealth were built, Rich rogues might comfort find in guilt. As grows the miser's hoarded store, His fears, his wants, increase the more. Gay (1688-1732) Fables 2099 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. Emerson (1803-1882) Wealth 2100 Why lose we life in anxious cares, To lay in hoards for future years? Can these, when tortur'd by disease, Cheer our sick hearts, or purchase ease? Can these prolong one gasp of breath, Or calm the troubled hour of death? Gay (1688-1732) Fables 2101 To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No - all that's worth a wish - a thought - Fair virtue gives, unbrib'd, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind Let nobler views engage thy mind. Johnson (1709-1784) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 MONEY Page 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2102 Ill fares the land To hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates But men decay. Goldsmith (1728-1774) 2103 Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. Pope (1688-1744) Moral Essays 2104 If thou are rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee. Shakespeare (1564-1616) Measure for Measure, Act III 2105 O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshiped, and how stupidly abused! Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Letter 2106 Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent. Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Hardship of Accounting 2107 I've always wonder why it's so, That money never lingers. Now I know why it's called "dough," It sticks to other's fingers. Rolf B. White (b. 1932) 2108 Money is honey, my little sonny, And a rich man's joke is always funny. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897) The Doctor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 MONEY Page 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Jokes & Humor 2109 Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. Mark Twain (1835-1910) 2110 I started out with nothing. I still have most of it. Michael Davis "Tonight Show" 2111 He was so broke he couldn't even pay attention. American Saying 2112 It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, as long as you've got money. Joe E. Lewis (1902-1971) 2113 I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. Jackie Mason (b. 1931) 2114 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. e. e. cummings (1894-1962) 2115 They say "money talks." Unfortunately, when it hears my name it says, "Who?" 2116 Money doesn't talk these days. It goes without saying. 2117 "Just burned a hundred dollar bill." "You must be a millionaire." "Well, it's easier to burn 'em than to pay 'em." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 MONEY Page 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2118 Some people pay their bills when due, some when they're overdue, and some never do. 2119 Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes - the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They- Haves. Earl Wilson 2120 The only thing I like about rich people is their money. Nancy Astor (1879-1964) 2121 Keep company with the very rich and you'll end up picking up the check. Stanley Walker 2122 Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollar. Hobart Brown 2123 George Raft earned and disposed of about ten million dollars in the course of his career. "Part of the loot went for gambling," he explained, "part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly." George Raft (1895-1980) 2124 I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark Twain (1835-1910) 2125 Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen (b. 1935) 2126 A fund raiser tried to persuade Hollywood movie producer Louis B.Mayer to give money to a charity. "You know you can't take it with you." "If I can't take it with me," said Mayer, "I won't go." Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 MONEY Page 17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2127 If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. Proverb Yiddish 2128 The only way to survive in today's business world is to have an M.B.A. - a Massive Bank Account. 2129 He made his money the really old-fashioned way. He inherited it. A. J. Carothers 2130 My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. Errol Flynn (1909-1959) 2131 Money isn't everything: usually it isn't even enough. Anonymous 2132 If money is a curse, my wallet is rated G. 2133 There are many in this old world of ours who hold that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in summer- time and the poor get it in winter. Anonymous 2134 Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. Henny Youngman (b. 1906) 2135 Growing up is that slow, painful transition from praying that your face will clear to praying that your check will clear.