“This poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury.”
The Bible (Mark 12:43)
GivingGenerosity
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.
“Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.”
The Bible (Acts 3:6)
GivingGenerosity
“Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all.”
The Bible (1 Chronicles 29:12)
WealthFaith
“If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.”
The Bible (Psalm 62:10)
WealthHumility
“A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.”
The Bible (Psalm 112:5)
LendingMoney Management
“For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:24)
WealthPlanning
“Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!”
The Bible (Habakkuk 2:6)
DebtGreed
“Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not.”
The Bible (Luke 12:33)
GivingTrue Wealth
“The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.”
The Bible (Leviticus 19:13)
WagesFairness
“Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power.”
Adam Smith
WealthPower
“The rate of profit is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.”
Adam Smith
ProfitEconomics
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
Thomas Jefferson
Public DebtFuture Generations
“Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.”
Ambrose Bierce
SatireFunny
“Wall Street, n. A symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke.”
Ambrose Bierce
Wall StreetSatire
“What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.”
Oscar Wilde
TaxesFunny
“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
IncomeFunny
“'What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?' 'Grandeur has but little,' said Elinor, 'but wealth has much to do with it.'”
Jane Austen
HappinessWealth
“We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us.”
Charles Dickens
SpendingFunny
“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.”
Henry David Thoreau
Simple LivingWealth
“There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.”
Miguel de Cervantes
InequalityWealth
“Many men have found that the acquisition of wealth was not an end, but merely a change, of troubles.”
Seneca
WealthStoicism
“Greed oft o'erreaches itself.”
Aesop
GreedFables
“Wealth unused might as well not exist.”
Aesop
HoardingFables
“A king with depleted treasury will eat into the very vitality of both citizens and country people.”
Kautilya
Government FinanceTaxes
“Riches and honours acquired by unrighteousness, are to me as a floating cloud.”
Confucius
EthicsWealth