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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.
“A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent.”
Benjamin Franklin
SpendingTime
“It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance.”
Benjamin Franklin
RegretShopping
“'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principal.”
Benjamin Franklin
DebtFunny
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
Benjamin Franklin
ActionIncome
“Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.”
Samuel Johnson
WealthArrogance
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Jonathan Swift
WisdomGreed
“Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
Lord Byron
CashMoney
“What Riches give us let us then enquire: Meat, Fire, and Clothes. What more? Meat, Clothes, and Fire.”
Alexander Pope
NeedsWealth
“Believe not much them that seem to despise riches: for they despise them that despair of them.”
Francis Bacon
WealthHuman Nature
“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
Aristotle
WealthPhilosophy
“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
Seneca
WealthStoicism
“Wealth, and wealth alone, is important, inasmuch as charity and desire depend upon wealth for their realisation.”
Kautilya
WealthEconomics
“When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honour are things to be ashamed of.”
Confucius
EthicsGovernment
“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MoneyBeauty
“Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”
Henry David Thoreau
Simple LivingSoul
“The art of making yourself rich, in the ordinary mercantile economist's sense, is therefore equally and necessarily the art of keeping your neighbour poor.”
John Ruskin
InequalityEconomics
“Cash payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.”
Thomas Carlyle
RelationshipsEconomics
“Lombard Street is often very dull, and sometimes extremely excited.”
Walter Bagehot
MarketsBanking
“Very large loans at very high rates are the best remedy for the worst malady of the money market.”
Walter Bagehot
Central BankingFinancial Crisis
“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes.”
Charles Mackay
Market BubblesSpeculation
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Anatole France
InequalityJustice
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
Anatole France
CreditSatire
“Poverty is the step-mother of genius.”
Josh Billings
PovertyCreativity
“Money and goods are certainly the best of references.”
Charles Dickens
ReputationFunny