Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

Henry Ward Beecher

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Henry Kravis

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Henry James

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Johann Sebastian Bach

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly...

Khalil Gibran

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Jonathan Swift

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Jonathan Swift

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Napoleon Hill

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

Orson Welles

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Orson Welles

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Orison Swett Marden

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Almost everyone is uncomfortable talking about money.

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

O. J. Simpson

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Merton Miller

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Merle Haggard

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Mason Cooley

Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

Mason Cooley

A budget takes the fun out of money.