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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
Sep 10, 2025
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Whatever you have spend less.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
owning capital is not a productive activity.
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.
Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.
If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Money isn't everything, Mortimer.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Money is only a human invention.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
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.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
Remember that credit is money.
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.