Money Quotes

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

- Attributed to John Wesley

Remember that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and three-pence, and so on till it become an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker, he that kills a breeding sow, destroy all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

- Benjamin Franklin¹

1. Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748) [↩]

Of Money

If men considered how many things there are that riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.

The things to be bought with money are such as least deserve the giving a price for them.

Wit and money are so apt to be abused that men generally make a shift to be the worse for them.

Money in a fool’s hand exposeth him worse than a pied coat.

Money hath too great a preference given to it by States as well as by particular men.

Men are more the sinews of war than money.

The third part of an army must be destroyed before a good one can be made out of it.

They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected to do everything for money.

- Sir George Savile¹

1. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c, Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections, pg. 517 [↩]

Th’ safe way t’ double your money is t’ fold it over once an’ put it in your pocket.

- Kin Hubbard¹

1. Abe Martin’s Almanack [↩]

Time is waste of money.

- Oscar Wilde¹

1. From Phrases and Philosophies For The Use Of The Young in The Prose of Oscar Wilde, pg. 307 [↩]

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

- Oscar Wilde¹

1. From Phrases and Philosophies For The Use Of The Young in The Prose of Oscar Wilde, pg. 308 [↩]

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The god of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

- Oscar Wilde¹

1. From Sebastian Melmoth in The Prose of Oscar Wilde, pg. 663 [↩]

rappers nowadays are comedy
the hootin’ and the hollerin’
back and forth with all the arguin’
where you from, who you know,
what you make and what kind of car you in
seems as though you lost sight
of what’s important with the positive
and checks into your bank account
and you up out of poverty
your values is a disarray,
prioritizin’ horribly
unhappy with your riches
’cause your piss poor morally
ignoring all prior advice and forewarnin’
and we might full of ourselves all of a sudden,
aren’t we?

Chorus:
you’re gonna be a shining star
fancy clothes, fancy cars
and then you’ll see
you’re gonna go far
cause everyone knows,
who you are
so live your life
you steady chasing that paper
just live your life
ain’t got no time for no haters
just life your life
no telling where it’ll take ya
just life your life
cause I’m a paper chaser
just living my life,
my life, my life, my life
just living my life,
my life, my life, my life

- T.I ft. Rihanna

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.

- Oscar Wilde¹

1. From Phrases and Philosophies For The Use Of The Young in The Prose of Oscar Wilde, pg. 305 [↩]

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

- Oscar Wilde¹

1. From Oscariana in The Prose of Oscar Wilde, pg. 601 [↩]