Quotes about money with meaning
Is money good or bad? It's neither one nor the other. The only thing that makes sense is how you acquire them and what you do with them once you have them. So in the quotes below, try to recognize the deeper meaning of how to look at money from the “right” point of view.
- If you want to know what a person is really like, pay attention to how he acts when he loses his money. (Simone Weil)
- Time is more valuable than money. You can make more money, but you can't get more time. (Jim Rohn)
- These days you have to milk the dollar from every cent. (Gail Forman)
- Money is just a tool. They will take you anywhere, but will not replace you as a driver. (Ayn Rand)
- If you are not serious about your money, then you will never have serious money. (Grant Cardon)
- Money is 80% behavior and 20% knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know. (Dave Ramsey)
- Making money is common sense, not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is rare. (Robert T. Kiyosaki)
- Las Vegas is the only place I know where money truly leaves you forever. (Frank Sinatra)
- Don't tell me your priorities. Show me how you spend your money and I will tell you about it. (James W. Frick)
- If a person correctly determines his attitude towards money, this will help improve almost all areas of his life. (Billy Graham)
- Money cannot buy peace of mind, heal broken relationships, or create meaning in a life that lacks it. (Richard M. DeVos)
- Blessed are the young, for they inherit the national debt. (Herbert Hoover)
- Top 15 things that money cannot buy. Time. Happiness. Inner peace. The truth. Love. Spirituality. One hundred percent safety. Health. Respect. Morality. Confidence. Patience. Of real friends. Common sense. Dignity. (Roy T. Bennett)
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Sayings and aphorisms about poverty and wealth.
It's good if your dress has no holes. And it’s not a sin to think about your daily bread. And everything else is not needed for nothing - Life is more valuable than wealth and honors of all.
Omar Khayyam
In this world, what makes us rich is not what we get, but what we give.
Bigger G.
If you want to be rich, do not think about increasing your property, but only moderate your greed.
Helvetius K.
People are afraid of poverty and obscurity; if both cannot be avoided without losing honor, they should be accepted.
Confucius
Greed for money, if it is insatiable, is much more painful than need, for the more desires grow, the greater needs they generate.
Democritus
Before you were born, you did not need anything, but once you are born, you are doomed to need everything. As soon as you throw off the oppression of a shameful body, you will again become free, like God, a rich man.
Omar Khayyam
Misers care so much about wealth as if it were their own, but use it so little as if it were someone else's.
Bion
When you meet a wanderer or a beggar, do not bypass them.
Menander
If poverty is the mother of crime, then stupidity is its father.
Labruyère J.
The poor man is defeated everywhere.
Ovid
It is not the one who has little who is poor, but the one who wants a lot.
Seneca
There is no fairer income than that which the earth, the sky, the year will bring.
Pliny the Younger
A sick person should not hide his illness from a doctor, and a poor person should not hide his poverty in front of his friends.
John of Damascus
They are in need while possessing wealth, and this is the most severe form of poverty.
Seneca
Poverty degrades people so much that they are ashamed even of their virtues.
Vauvenargues
Worldly goods, being deception, falsehood and fiction, are by their nature impermanent.
As-Samarkandi
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Well-being in all respects is impossible. (Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus))
Wealth and poverty are different worlds of the same planet. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov) POVERTY
Poverty is the test of the rich man, and wealth is the test of the poor man. (Baurzhan Toyshibekov) POVERTY
It is better to guide one soul than to own everything on earth. (Unknown author) SOUL
Rich - poor in money, because his thoughts are richer. (Unknown author)
Some riches are heavy from shed human tears, just as a poorly harvested harvest is heavy from untimely rains. (John Ruskin)
The stingy rich, who lock up their income in their coffers, steal part of society's wealth. (Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka)
Many despise life's blessings, but almost no one is able to share them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
All that glitters is not gold. (Unknown author)
While wealth has not yet been acquired, the desire for it is exhausting; once acquired, it is tormented by worries; when it is lost, longing for it is tormented. (Democritus)
He who always has little is always poor. (Arian Schultz)
Each person is the creator of his own well-being. (Richard Steele (Steele))
I was always content with what I had, and it was like a squirrel hiding its acorns. Sometimes there were more acorns, sometimes less. But there has never been a time when I didn’t have one left. (Audrey Hepburn)
Oh, how difficult it is to have a million!!! (“The Adventures of Funtik”). (Unknown author)
True wealth does not lie in enormous wealth, but in its reasonable use. (Napoleon)
We never understand what treasures are in front of us because people don't believe in treasures at all. (Paulo Coelho)
The appropriation of wealth determines the renunciation of wealth in its material reality. (Karl Marx)
Even a millionaire sometimes has some kind of cherished dream. For example, become a billionaire. (Baurzhan Toyshibekov) DREAM
Some poverty is someone's wealth, and another wealth is someone's poverty. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)
Is excess poverty with wealth or wealth with poverty? (Konstantin Kushner)
It is difficult to be content with little, but it is even more difficult to be content with more. (Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Man lives on earth not to become rich, but to become happy. (Stendhal (Henri-Marie Bayle)) HAPPINESS
Saturation gives rise to insolence when a bad person experiences good fortune and when this person does not have a sound mind. (Theognis)
Wealth is the savings of many in the hands of one. (Julian Tuwim)
Just as the accumulation of knowledge does not increase intelligence, so wealth does not make one happier. (Konstantin Kushner) KNOWLEDGE
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No good is better than a friend. (Menander)
Not being greedy is already wealth, not being wasteful is income. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The consensus between the well-fed and the hungry, the rich and the poor is nonsense. (Konstantin Kushner) OPINION
The good of an individual or a single nation is connected with the common good of all. (Henri Barbusse)
There are three ways to use wealth - action, enjoyment and destruction. (Bhartrihari)
Rob, grab, mine, own - everything will have to be left behind. (Mark Valery Martial)
Accumulated wealth can serve, but it can also enslave. (Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus))
The rich chase wealth, the poor chase the rich. (Thomas Fuller)
The bread that you store in your bins belongs to the hungry; the cloak lying in your chest belongs to a naked man; the gold that you buried in the ground belongs to the poor man. (Basily the Great (Basily of Caesarea))
Wealth is a good servant, but a bad mistress. (Francis Bacon)
In every civilized state wealth is sacred; in democracies this alone is sacred. (Anatole France)
Wealth is very good when it serves us, and very bad when it rules us. (Francis Bacon)
Aid to underdeveloped countries brings money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. (Unknown author)
Those who, during times of prosperity, think that they have gotten rid of adversity forever are mistaken. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Which husband is better - poor or rich? If you marry a poor person, you will have nothing but a husband. And if you marry a rich man, you will have everything except a husband. (Konstantin Melikhan) FAMILY
Not a single pearl, even the brightest, is worth drowning over. (Unknown author) OBJECTIVE
Prosperity in old age means prolongation of youth. (Charles Lamb) AGE
Concerns about personal well-being are quite natural, and cannot be discounted. But if you care only about this, neglecting the public good and the protection of the entire human society, life will become shameful, petty and - I will say frankly - vile. (Romain Rolland)
We should not envy the wealth of other people: they acquire it at a price that we cannot afford; they sacrificed peace, health, honor, and conscience for it. This is too expensive - the deal would only bring us losses. (Jean de La Bruyère) ENVY ___________________________________________________________________
The thirst for gold dries up hearts, and they close themselves to compassion, do not heed the voice of friendship, blood ties are broken, people yearn only for wealth and are able to sell everything, even humanity. (Jean Paul Marat)
Wealth breeds stinginess and arrogance. (Euripides)
Worldly goods, being deception, falsehood and fiction, are by their nature impermanent. (Muhammad Azzahiri As-Samarkandi)
Those who strive only for enrichment do not want to believe that people have goods higher than those that they hold on to. (Arbiter Gaius Petronius)
He who knows how to be content with little is rich. (Carlo Goldoni)
The greatest wealth can be achieved by losing all your money. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)
More flies drown in honey than in vinegar. (Folk wisdom)
Let the wise men resolve to despise wealth. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
For those who take everything from life, everything is not enough. (Konstantin Kushner)
Without getting rich, you won't know how many poor relatives you have. (Unknown author) MONEY POVERTY
In our age of luxury, we have reached the point where we hire strangers to do good deeds for us. (John Stuart Mill) GOOD
What you don’t want to have tomorrow, discard today, and what you want to have tomorrow, acquire today. (Thomas Aquinas) KNOWLEDGE
In this dark world, consider only spiritual wealth as true, for it will never depreciate. (Omar Khayyam)
From wealth comes satiety, from satiety - arrogance. (Solon)
Money comes and goes, but spiritual wealth remains. (Konstantin Kushner) MONEY
People don't want to be rich; people want to be richer than others. (John Stuart Mill)
A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. (Unknown author)
It is extremely difficult to protect something that many people like. (Publius Syrus)
No one can tell whether he is poor or rich by looking at his income and expenses ledger. What makes a man rich is his heart. Wealth is determined not by what a person has, but by what he is. (Henry Ward Beecher)
How many people, in constant trouble, tirelessly, like ants, are busy from morning to evening increasing existing wealth; everything that comes out of a narrow circle of means aimed at this goal is alien to them: their empty soul is impervious to anything else. (Arthur Schopenhauer) _____________________________________________________________________
Laziness is the daughter of wealth and the mother of poverty. (Paul Decourcel) POVERTY
If we manage our wealth, then we are rich and free; if our wealth controls us, then we are no poorer. (Edmund Burke)
Poverty and wealth are words for need and abundance. Therefore, whoever is in need is not rich, and whoever is not in need is poor. (Democritus) POVERTY
The rich man is known everywhere and has friends on the other side, but the poor man is hated on his own side. (Daniil Zatochnik)
To create a fortune for yourself, especially a large one, you need a mind of a special type: not strong, not sharp, not extensive, not sublime, not free, not subtle. (Jean de La Bruyère)
The one who walked yesterday is prancing on a horse today, and the one who pranced on a horse yesterday is walking today. (Baurzhan Toishibekov)
Wealth is the ability to satisfy the needs that are imposed on us.
If you were told that my wealth was acquired through hard work, ask: “Whose labor?” (Unknown author)
I don’t like to have half of something, it’s better to be among the completely poor, then at least my soul will belong to me. (Robert Walser)
A person should always think about how much more property he has than he needs, and how much more unhappy he may become in the future. (Joseph Addison)
He who has accumulated a lot will lose a lot. (Hong Zicheng) MONEY
So life, having elevated a person to the pinnacle of well-being, continues to tease and torment him there. There is always something unattainable ahead, eternal temptation and eternal dissatisfaction. (Dreiser Theodor)
Concern for what is superfluous is often combined with the loss of what is necessary. (Solon)
The shortest and surest way to make a fortune for yourself is to let people know that it benefits them to do good to you. (Jean de La Bruyère) WELCOME
Wealth is only one of the means to a happy life, but they turned it into the only goal of existence. (Anatole France)
Do not torment your soul immensely every hour with your quest for power and wealth in the world. (Abdurrahman Nureddin ibn Ahmad Jami) POWER
Before you get caught in the golden shower, remember: gold is almost three times heavier than lead! (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)
Pattern. For one to become rich, thousands must become poor. (Leonid Krainov-Rytov)
Some people bathe in champagne, while others have nowhere to wash themselves. (Konstantin Kushner) ___________________________________________________________________
The tendency towards convenience in man is worse than any other evil in life. (Immanuel Kant)
He who has everything enjoys nothing. (Pierre Boist) PLEASURE
Being rich does not mean being happy, just as possessing a woman does not mean loving her. (Antoine de Rivarol)
He who wants to live in prosperity must learn to live in need. (Plutarch)
He is rich who considers himself so with what he has. (Pierre Buast)
Give away the treasures today, make sure you don’t lose everything tomorrow. (Muslihaddin Saadi)
If you buy what you don't need, you will soon sell what you do need. (Benjamin Franklin) TRADE
You can't eat diamonds! (Rostild)
Strength is given to a person by nature, the ability to speak for good - from the soul and understanding, and wealth of resources - for many - from simple chance. (Biant)
My wealth lies in what I do, not in what I have. (Thomas Carlyle) CASE
If wealth were considered valuable in heaven, it would not be given to such scoundrels. (Jonathan Swift)
The tendency to condemn profit stems from the medieval view that one man's profit meant another man's loss. (Walter Wriston) MANAGING MONEY
Wealth and nobility do not bring any dignity. (Socrates)
Nothing lasts forever under the sun, the meaning of frailty cannot be hidden, Why accumulate treasures - there will be no treasures. (Ibn Sina)
Whoever reaches old age will feel illnesses from the luxuries of his youth, therefore, in his youth he should avoid luxuries. (Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov) AGE
Some bathe in luxury, while others have nowhere to wash themselves. (Konstantin Kushner)
Anyone can be rich in promises. (Ovid (Publius Ovid Naso))
He who does not need someone else’s, but lives independently, is richer than everyone else. (John Chrysostom (Chrysostom))
The easiest way to win the war against poverty is to stop pretending we're rich. (American proverb) WAR
If you want to lose a friend, give him an expensive gift. (Unknown author) FRIENDSHIP
Since wealth is power, any power inevitably, in one way or another, gets its hands on wealth. (Edmund Burke) POWER
The rich will not be able to share the latter - they don’t have it... (Mikhail Mamchich) _____________________________________________________________________
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Poor and rich aphorisms
Poor people are more beautiful, and rich people are stronger.
M. Gorky
... Poor wisdom is often the slave of rich stupidity.
W. Shakespeare
... A poor person of any rank is almost always decent, a rich person is prone to fraud: to get rich, it is not enough to be dexterous and enterprising.
J. Labruyère
... If you are so smart, why are you so poor?
Unknown author
... Rich is the one who receives more than he spends; Poor is the one whose expenses exceed his income.
J. Labruyère
... A rich man who is preoccupied, always in need and busy with business seems even more pitiful to me than one who is simply poor.
M. Montaigne
... The difference between rich and poor is that one eats when he wants, and the other when he can.
V. Raleigh
... The rich man's pleasures are bought by the poor man's tears.
T. Fuller
… Excess makes despots and slaves out of the same citizens, while poverty makes them all equal.
J. Bernardin
… Poverty puts barriers to our desires, but it also limits us; wealth multiplies our needs, but provides opportunities to satisfy them.
Vauvenargues
… A poor man enjoys a rose in his window better than a rich man in his extensive gardens.
P. Buast
…Palaces cannot be safe where huts are unhappy.
B. Disraeli
... I lived in poverty, I will die rich, but it would be better – the other way around.
B. Disraeli
… If the rich could hire beggars to die for them, the beggars would make good money.
Sholom Aleichem
... A healthy beggar is happier than a sick king.
A. Schopenhauer
... As the wallet empties, the heart fills.
V. Hugo
... The rich have fifteen rooms for three people, and you can’t let a beggar stay warm and spend the night. The peasant has a seven-yard hut for seven souls, and he willingly lets the wanderer in...
L. Tolstoy
… I have no citizenship rights, no house, no money, no slaves. I sleep on bare ground. I have no wife, children, bed. Only earth and sky and this one cloak. What else am I missing?! Am I not free? I am my own king and master.
Epictetus
... Not being able to endure poverty is shameful; not being able to get rid of it through labor is even more shameful.
Pericles
… He who is incapable of being poor is incapable of being free.
V. Hugo
... An excessively rich man who does not help the poor is like a hefty nurse sucking with appetite her own breast at the cradle of a hungry child.
Kozma Prutkov
... Alms corrupt both the giver and the taker, and moreover, it does not achieve its goal, because it only increases beggary.
F. Dostoevsky
... Luxury corrupts everyone: both the rich man who uses it and the poor man who craves it.
J. J. Rousseau
... When the sun sets, the richest luminary, even the poorest fisherman rows with a golden oar.
F. Nietzsche
