A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella
in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins
to rain.
- Robert Frost
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be
happy. It's only necessary be rich
- Alan Alda
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the
real world, whether you have money or not
- Jerry Gellis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard
work, ask him: 'Whose?
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
You cannot motivate the best people with money.
Money is just a way to keep score The best people
in any field are motivated by passion
- Eric S. Raymond
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and
not just money or things. Poverty is a way of
living and thinking, and not just a lack of money
or things.
- Eric Butterworth
Organized crime in America takes in over forty
billion dollars a year and spends very little on
office supplies.
- Woody Allen
You aren't wealthy until you have something money
can't buy.
- Garth Brooks
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over
lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is
the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the
gravy
- Bette Davis
Investing is simple, but not easy.
--Warren Buffet, interview on CNBC W/Maria
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it.
There is nothing in its nature to produce
happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants.
Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
- Benjamin Franklin
I've never sought success in order to get fame and
money; it's the talent and the passion that count
in success.
- Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just
look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he,
then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human
happiness in the concrete devotes his heart
entirely to money.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Essays and Aphorisms
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, money
takes wings, those who cheer you today may curse
you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is
character.
- Horace Greeley
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than
money to make men rich.
- A. P. Gouthey
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people
money.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Squeezing our money out of politicians is more
difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To
paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, once
they have found a way to take our money, they
never let it go.
- Cal Thomas
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health
is lost, something is lost; when character is
lost, all is lost.
- Billy Graham
If money is your hope for independence you will
never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford 1863-1947
American Industrialist
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy
master. The covetous man cannot so properly be
said to possess wealth, as that may be said to
possess him
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essayist, philosopher, and statesman
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you
are handsome and you sing well too.
- Yiddish Proverb
There was a time when a fool and his money were
soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
- Adlai Stevenson
Uno sciocco e il suo denaro son presto separati;
English Equivalent: A fool and his money are soon
parted
- Italian Proverb
A penny saved is a penny earned
- Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to
curse liberty--to curse life, which is nothing, if
it be not free.
- de Gourmont
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
- Gabrielle Chanel
Money was invented so we could know exactly how
much we owe.
- Cullen Hightower
The entire essence of America is the hope to first
make money -- then make money with money - then
make lots of money with lots of money.
- Paul Erdman
If all the rich people in the world divided up
their money amongst themselves there wouldn't be
enough to go around.
- Christina Stead
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic
surgery.
- Beverly Johnson
It is 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 you haven't lost the things
money can't buy.
- George Lorimer
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by
four o'clock.
- Henny Youngman
The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your'
money.
- IRS auditor
Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring
you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you
money
- Henny Youngman
Remember that time is money.
- Benjamin Franklin
