“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 Lorimer
“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.” Johnny Depp
Justin Wolfers explained that if happiness really did taper off at a certain income level, “anyone who is rich would be an idiot.”
“If more money was not associated with more happiness, we would stop working,” he said. “Every time we doubled income, we get the same increase in well-being.”
Remember the words of Albert Camus, a French Nobel Prize-winning author: “It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing. – J. Paul Getty
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. – Henry David Thoreau
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. – Zig Ziglar
So I thought it would be useful for me – and hopefully for you too – to put together a list of some of the best quotes on money and wealth that I have come across.
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” Robert Graves
“The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” Proverb
“The glow of one warm thought is to be worth more than money.” Thomas Jefferson
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” Jonathan Swift
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” Pablo Picasso
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” Voltaire
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. –Steve Martin
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.” And: “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from imagination.” — Oscar Wilde
“There are people who have money, and there are people who are rich.” — Coco Chanel
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. – Ayn Rand
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. –Warren Buffett
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” And, “By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.” — Democritus, pre-Socratic philosopher (circa 460 B.C. to circa 370 B.C.)
Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. –David Rubenstein
Fortune sides with him who dares. – Virgil
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years. –Warren Buffett
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 Lorimer
I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
Never spend your money before you have it. – Thomas Jefferson
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. – Kahlil Gibran
The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went. – Unknown
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. –Charles Caleb Colton
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. – Maya Angelou