“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
Charles Dickens
FrugalityFunny
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.
“People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.”
Jane Austen
PensionsFunny
“What a god's gold, that he is worshipp'd in a baser temple than where swine feed!”
William Shakespeare
GreedGold
“There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.”
William Shakespeare
GreedGold
“Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman!”
William Shakespeare
ScamsFunny
“Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich.”
William Shakespeare
EnvyWealth
“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:12)
ForgivenessDebt
“Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.”
The Bible (Matthew 18:27)
Debt ReliefCompassion
“There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.”
The Bible (Luke 7:41)
DebtParables
“Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.”
The Bible (Luke 16:2)
StewardshipAccountability
“And there wasted his substance with riotous living.”
The Bible (Luke 15:13)
SpendingRegret
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 6:17)
WealthHumility
“Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 16:2)
SavingGiving
“And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability.”
The Bible (Matthew 25:15)
InvestingStewardship
“Lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great.”
The Bible (Luke 6:35)
LendingGenerosity
“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.”
The Bible (Proverbs 10:2)
EthicsWealth
“He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 17:11)
EthicsWealth
“Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.”
The Bible (Proverbs 28:6)
IntegrityWealth
“Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:16)
EducationFunny
“The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel.”
The Bible (Exodus 30:15)
TaxesFairness
“And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 32:9)
Real EstateInvesting
“Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”
The Bible (Genesis 23:16)
Real EstateTrade
“They reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.”
The Bible (2 Kings 12:15)
TrustHonesty
“And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.”
The Bible (Matthew 20:2)
WagesWork
“As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:15)
WealthPerspective