“If you put a little upon a little and do this often, soon that little will become great.”
Hesiod
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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.
“Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue.”
Cicero
FrugalitySaving
“You must spend money, if you wish to make money.”
Plautus
InvestingBusiness
“Money amassed either rules or serves its owner.”
Horace
Money ManagementWisdom
“When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty.”
Benjamin Franklin
DebtFreedom
“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.”
Samuel Johnson
BalanceSaving
“Great spenders are bad lenders.”
Benjamin Franklin
SpendingLending
“Light purse, heavy heart.”
Benjamin Franklin
Money WorriesShort Quotes
“Wealth and content are not always bed-fellows.”
Benjamin Franklin
ContentmentWealth
“He that hath a trade hath an estate.”
Benjamin Franklin
SkillsIncome
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”
Benjamin Franklin
IndependenceHard Work
“Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great.”
Benjamin Franklin
Bad HabitsSpending
“Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.”
Benjamin Franklin
Money ManagementCarelessness
“Not to oversee workmen, is to leave them your purse open.”
Benjamin Franklin
BusinessOversight
“Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse.”
Benjamin Franklin
SpendingPride
“He that is of opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
Benjamin Franklin
GreedCharacter
“You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.”
Samuel Johnson
WealthFunny
“He lends out money gratis and brings down the rate of usance here with us in Venice.”
William Shakespeare
Interest RatesLending
“He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.”
The Bible (Proverbs 21:17)
SpendingSelf Control
“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”
The Bible (Proverbs 19:17)
CharityGiving
“There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:13)
HoardingWealth
“For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:12)
SecurityWisdom
“Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.”
The Bible (Luke 19:8)
GenerosityRestitution
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.”
The Bible (Matthew 21:12)
GreedFaith
“Thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.”
The Bible (Matthew 17:27)
TaxesProvision