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Famous Financial Quotes
People have been arguing and agonizing over money for thousands of years. Here are some of the choice quotes:
Miscellaneous Sources
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. ~William Paterson (founder of Bank of England 1694)
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves. ~Earl Wilson
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ~Proverbs 22:7
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. ~Ellen Glasgow
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. ~Martin Cruz Smith
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. ~Warren Buffett
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
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
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ~Bob Hope
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. ~Author Unknown
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. ~Oscar Wilde
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ~Zig Ziglar
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897
Benjamin Franklin was famous for many quotes regarding finances
To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude when it is not in our power to repay it.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
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