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It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.
Sep 10, 2025
The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
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.
It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Money often costs too much.
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
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.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.
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 five years.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
A fool and his money are soon partying.
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
A fool and his money are soon married.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
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 of you.
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
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.