Famous Quotes About Money

Over the years, there have been a lot of famous quotes about money.   Here are some of my favorites…

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
-Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
-Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
-Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
-Benjamin Franklin

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
-Bob Hope

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
-Charles Caleb Cotton

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
-Donald Trump

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-Dorothy Parker

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-Earl Wilson

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.
-Earl Wilson

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-E.E. Cummings

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
-Edith Wharton

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.
-Ernest Haskins

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-George Eliot

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
-Henry Fielding

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
-J. Paul Getty

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
-Jonathon Swift

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
-Julius Rosenwald

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
-Katherine Whitehorn

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
-Kin Hubbard

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.
-Ron Kittle

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
-Themistocles

Never spend your money before you have it.
-Thomas Jefferson

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
-Unknown

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
-Yogi Berra
 
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. 
-Errol Flynn

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune:  go there with a large one. 
-Jack Yelton

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
-Cree Indian Proverb

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. 
-Pablo Picasso

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. 
-Michael Leboeuf

There are people who have money and people who are rich. 
-Coco Chanel

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this:  most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.  Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. 
-Douglas Adams

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 Horace Lorimer

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back. 
-Unknown

My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. 
-Abraham Lincoln

Money is like manure.  You have to spread it around or it smells. 
-J. Paul Getty

Women prefer men who have something tender about them – especially the legal kind. 
-Kay Ingram

Money often costs too much. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. 
-M.W. Harrison

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. 
-Kahlil Gibran

It frees you from doing things you dislike.  Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. 
-Groucho Marx

We live by the Golden Rule.  Those who have the gold make the rules. 
-Buzzie Bavasi

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. 
-Jean-Paul Kauffmann

I am having an out of money experience. 
-Unknown

The little money I have – that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure. 
-Robert Brault

If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. 
-George Gobel

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder. 
-Unknown

Inflation is taxation without legislation. 
-Milton Friedman

Lack of money is the root of all evil. 
-George Bernard Shaw

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

Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise. 
-Benjamin Franklin

What about you?  Do you have any favorite saving money quotes?  If so just add a comment below and maybe I’ll add it to my list of famous quotes on money…

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