“Endless money forms the sinews of war.”
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Finance Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FINANCE
Finance Quotes
Read the best finance quotes from Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Jefferson, the Bible and more, with timeless wisdom on money, debt and saving.
“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
Publilius Syrus
MoneyEconomics
“Money never made a man rich; on the contrary, it always smites men with a greater craving for itself.”
Seneca
GreedStoicism
“For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.”
Benjamin Franklin
RetirementSaving
“What maintains one vice would bring up two children.”
Benjamin Franklin
SpendingFamily
“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.”
Benjamin Franklin
ContentmentWealth
“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”
Samuel Johnson
SpendingEnjoying Life
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:19)
WealthFaith
“An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.”
The Bible (Proverbs 20:21)
InheritanceGet Rich Quick
“He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.”
The Bible (Haggai 1:6)
SpendingBudgeting
“Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.”
The Bible (Proverbs 22:26)
LoansCaution
“Thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 15:6)
LendingProsperity
“Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.”
The Bible (Proverbs 3:9)
GivingFaith
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
The Bible (Malachi 3:10)
TithingBlessing
“If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?”
The Bible (Luke 16:11)
StewardshipTrust
“You take my house when you do take the prop that doth sustain my house; you take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.”
William Shakespeare
LivelihoodIncome
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men.”
William Shakespeare
RiskInvesting
“Signior Antonio, many a time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my moneys and my usances.”
William Shakespeare
LendingInterest
“Put money in thy purse.”
William Shakespeare
SavingShort Quotes
“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.”
William Shakespeare
DebtFunny
“Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold?”
William Shakespeare
GoldGreed
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Jane Austen
IncomeFunny
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
Mark Twain
MoneyFunny
“Mere parsimony is not economy.”
Edmund Burke
FrugalityEconomics
“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.”
Washington Irving
DollarMoney