There is no God, then anything is possible. If there is no God, then everything is allowed? We see that a serious situation is developing in the country, very serious.

Quotes about money have always intrigued and motivated people, and good quote can change your thinking and also inspire you to take certain actions.

To that end, I've collected the following quotes about money and organized them into categories.

Wealth

Merriam Webster says it's "a lot of money and property." But the dictionary defines "rich" as "having high value or quality."

1. Robert Kiyosaki: “People say: “I want to be rich.” The question is: “Are you willing to do what it takes?”
2. Henry David Thoreau: “Wealth is the ability to experience life fully.”
3. Epictetus: “Wealth does not consist in having many possessions, but in having few desires.”
4. Andrew Carnegie: “Excessive wealth is a sacred trust which its owner is obligated to bring to bear in his life for the good of society.”
5. W. S. Fields: “A rich man is just a poor man with money.”
6. David Bailey: “To become rich, you must make money while you sleep.”
7. Tommy Lee: “The best thing about being rich is freedom. Freedom to do what you want, when you want."
8. Felix Dennis: “You will never get rich working for your boss.”



Philosophy of money

What do you think about money?

Is this one of the most important things in your life? What are you willing to do for them? How do you use them?

These and other questions are addressed in the following quotations.

9. Marsha Sinetar: “Do what you love, and the money will follow.”
10. Ayn Rand: “Money is only a tool. It will take you where you want to go, but it will not replace you as a driver.”
11. Jonathan Swift: “A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
12. George Bernard Shaw: “Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
13. Ann Richards: “There is much more to living than just making money.”
14. Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Happiness does not lie in simply having money. It lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
15. Henry Fielding: "Make your god money and he will haunt you like the devil."
16. Anna Lappe: “Every time you spend money, you vote for the world you want.”
17. François Rabelais: “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think that they can be happy without money.”
18. Henry Ford: “The best use of capital is not to make money.” more money, but to earn money to improve life.”
19. Pope Francis: “Money should serve, not rule.”
20. Robert Collier: “Every wealth has its origin. Wealth is in ideas, not money."
21. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Money is often too dear.”
22. Kevin O'Leary: "Money equals freedom."



Debt and lending

In 2016 in Russia, the number of debtors on loans was about 40 million people with a total amount of 11 trillion rubles, and 8 million people were able to pay their debts.

The question is what makes you borrow money. Burdening yourself with a future with debt credit cards for consumer goods is not the same as borrowing to start a business or buy a home. “Debt either builds your future or cannibalizes it” - Unknown Author.

23. Bob Hope: “A bank is a place that will give you money even if you can prove that you don’t need it.”
24. Thomas Jefferson: “Never spend money before you have it.”
25. Jesse H. Jones: “One of the biggest inconveniences you can cause a man is to lend him money he can’t pay back.”
26. Benjamin Franklin: “Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
27. William Shakespeare: “He who dies pays all debts.”
28. Andrew Tobias: “You want 21% risk? Pay off your credit cards."
29. John Dewey: "No man's credit is so good as his money."
30. Joyce Brothers: “Collecting credits is a lot like drinking. The euphoria is immediate and gives you a lift... The hangover sets in the next day.”
31. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A man in debt is like a slave.”



Savings and saving

Do you use discount coupons, participate in sales, and negotiate a lower price?

Or do you impulsively buy what you want, when you want?

Are you setting aside money for future purchases or running up credit card debt so you can have it all right now? Shopping for credit can be fun, but it's also a way to buy a bad future.

32. Chuck Feeney: "It's smart to be frugal."
33. Ezra Taft Benson: "Don't leave yourself or your family unprotected from financial storms... Build a savings."
34. Sir Henry Taylor: “The art of living easily with money is to place your standard of living one step below your means.”
35. Joe Moore: “The simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is worth taking when you have it.”
36. William Shatner: “If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!”
37. Jeff Bezos: “I believe that austerity drives innovation as much as other constraints do. One way to get out of a tight box is to invent your own way out.”
38. John Ray: "Industriousness is right hand good luck, and the economy is wrong.”
39. Paula Poundstone: "I'm grateful for the 3 ounce Ziploc bag, now I have somewhere to stash my savings."



Business

Business is a game for some people, a way to pay bills to others, and for some lucky souls, a way to pursue their pleasure in life.

If you don't have own business, you may not relate to some of the quotes below.

On the other hand, maybe you're in business and just don't know it. “A job is about selling your labor and the profits can be reinvested in a better business.” - Unknown Author.

40. Donald Trump: “Money has never been a big motivation for me, other than as a way to keep score. The real excitement is in the game.”
41. Andy Warhol: “Making money is an art, and working is an art, and good business is best art of all."
42. Alexandre Dumas: “Business? It's pretty simple. This is other people's money."
43. Benjamin Franklin: “Run your business, or it will run yours.”
44. Sam Walton: “There is only one boss - the client. And he can fire everyone in the company, from the manager down, simply by spending his money elsewhere.”
45. Earl Warren: “Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter that made money.”
46. Francis Ford Coppola: “As long as I can make a lot of money from other businesses, I will continue to subsidize my work.”



Investment

The idea is quite simple: after you work for money, you save, then it can work for you.

Of course, in these days of low interest rates, your bank accounts don't work very well for you, like many other investments that come with the risk of losing your hard-earned capital. "They say you can make your money work for you, but my money seems a little lazy in lately"—Unknown author.

47. Robert Kiyosaki: “We go to school to learn how to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to make money from them."
48. Ron Chernow: “One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all aspects of the economy. It’s your window to a very big world.”
49. Paul Samuelson: “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
50. John Maynard Keynes: “Successful investing is anticipating the expectations of others.”
51. Bill Ackman: “Investing is a business where you can look very stupid for a long period of time before you prove yourself right.”
52. Kevin Rose: “The key to making money in angel investing is failure. You meet with 100 companies and turn down 99 of them.”
53. Donald Trump: “Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”



Money and ethics

There is an old joke in which a store owner explains ethics to his son: “Today a customer gave me 100 rubles, thinking it was 20 rubles, and I sold him the goods for 20 rubles. Ethics, my son, is whether I should share 80 rubles of profit with my partner or keep it for myself.”

But seriously, where can we show ethical principles when it comes to money? “I figure that before I try to use unethical ways to make money, I will work through all the ethical principles, and that will take a lifetime.” - Unknown Author.

54. Benjamin Franklin: “He who believes that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
55. Will Smith: “Money and success don’t change people. They just enhance what’s already there.”
56. Muhammad Ali: “My principles are more important than money or my title.”
57. Max Weber: " Folk wisdom says: either eat well or sleep well. IN in this case The Protestant tends to eat well, while the Catholic prefers to sleep peacefully.”
58. Oliver Wendell Holmes: “A man is usually more careful with his money than with his principles.”



Money and success

How do you define success?

This big house and a fancy car, or a job you love? How do you know when you have achieved success?
“People have no idea what will truly make them happy, so they look for things that will make them successful according to the standards of the culture around them.” - Unknown Author.

59. Henry Ford: “If money is your hope for independence, you will never get it. The only real security a person can have in this world is a stock of knowledge, experience and ability.”
60. Oprah Winfrey: “How do I define success? Let me tell you that money is very good. But availability large quantity money will not automatically make you a successful person.”
61. Bob Dylan: “What is money? A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants.”
62. Al Pacino: “Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky, you're lucky."
63. Nelson Mandela: “Money will not lead to success, it will be the freedom to make it.”



Employment and salary

Do you like yours current job, or is it just a way to pay bills?

Is it leading you in the right direction? If not, can you use it to get where you want to go?

64. Julianna Margulies: "I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that will no longer feed you creatively."
65. Byron Dorgan: “Working hard and working smart can sometimes be two different things.”
66. Henry Ford: “It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only process money. It’s the client who pays the salary.”
67. J. Paul Getty: “An employer usually gets the employees he deserves.”
68. Marlon Brando: “Never confuse the size of your salary with the size of your talent.”
69. Joan Rivers: “I learned how to do my own show with Fox so that people aren't your partners if they're signing checks. Whoever signs their paycheck is the boss—no matter what they tell you.”
70. Drew Carey: "I don't miss economic insecurity, living paycheck to paycheck."

Thoughts about money

In addition to general philosophical ideas about money, many famous people expressed personal feelings and ideas.

Which of the following thoughts about money would you consider yourself to have?

71. Francis Ford Coppola: “I have never been careless with other people's money. Only with your own people. Because I think you can afford it."
72. Salvador Dali: “To fall in love with money, as I do, is nothing short of mystical. Money is glory."
73. Paris Hilton: “I made all my money without the help of my family, and I work very hard.”
74. Joan Crawford: “I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Whatever I earn, I spend."
75. Anna Nicole Smith: “Marrying money is not a good idea, in my opinion.”
76. Kid Rock: “I'm happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers."
77. Antonio Banderas: “It was an honor and a privilege to come to this country 16 years ago with almost no money left in my pocket. A lot has happened since then."
78. Cher: “I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like the fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat on the inside. I grew up poor and always felt bad. This is my stupid paranoia."
79. Pablo Picasso: “I would like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.”
80. Warren Buffett: “I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap at me.”
81. Steven Spielberg: “I’m not very interested in making money.”

Random quotes about money

Some humor, philosophy, and a little insight can be found in the following money quotes.
82. Steven Tyler: “You have no idea how expensive it is to look cheap.”
83. Gene Simmons: “I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who isn't afraid of work will be happy with the money they get."
84. Scott Alexander: “Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have. Wonderful".
85. John D. Rockefeller: “I have ways of making money that you know nothing about.”
86. Muhammad Yunus: “People do much more than just make money.”
87. Irving Paul Lazar: “The whole point of having money, working and making money is to enjoy and spend it.”
88. H. L. Mencken: “The chief value of money is that man lives in a world in which it is overvalued.”
89. Felix Dennis: “Making money is definitely the one addiction I can’t break.”

Money and humor

Sometimes money quotes are just funny. And sometimes they teach valuable lessons for life. Both types of citations are included here.

90. Woody Allen: “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
91. Yogi Berra: "A nickel isn't worth a penny anymore."
92. Jackie Mason: “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.”
93. Groucho Marx: “Money frees you from doing things you don’t like. Since I don’t like to do most things, money is very convenient for me.”
94. David Richerby: "The Tooth Fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."
95. Jack Hundy: "I hope that when I die people will say about me, 'That guy owed me a lot of money.'
96. Edith Wharton: “The only way not to think about money is to have a lot of it.”
97. Oscar Wilde: “When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old, I know it's really true."
98. B. Nemtsov: “Power is only an opportunity to realize one’s own ideas, and not to earn money or receive some benefits.”
99. Spike Milligan: "All I'm asking for is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
100. George Bernard Shaw: “Few people can afford to be poor.”
101. Elizabeth Taylor: “Money is the best deodorant.”

Your turn: write your favorite money quotes in the comments?

Fake money appears due to lack of funds among talented people. Frantisek Kryshka

Main body human body, the unshakable foundation on which the soul rests is a wallet. Thomas Carlyle

There is no more innocent activity in the world than making money. Samuel Johnson

We are forced to pay for money with freedom. Robert Louis Stevenson

Money is like a hedgehog, easy to catch, but difficult to keep. Claudius Elian

Money is a means of circulation, frozen into a dead letter and killing life, just as a letter is a means of communication, frozen into dead money and killing the spirit. Moses Hess

He who has money cannot be punished. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money is the most abstract and “impersonal” of all that exists in people's lives. Max Weber

The greatest misuse of money is what it can buy political power. Karl Raymund Popper

Those who believe that money can do anything can actually do anything for the sake of money. George Saville Halifax

The simplest way not needing money - not getting more than you need, but living less than you can. Vasily Klyuchevsky

Spend one penny less than you earn. Benjamin Franklin

Remember that money has the ability to multiply. Benjamin Franklin

The whole advantage of having money is being able to use it. Benjamin Franklin

Any life devoted to the pursuit of money is death. Resurrection is in selflessness. Albert Camus

Money either dominates its owner or serves him. Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

With age, the desire to earn money turns into a desire to save. Mikhail Zhvanetsky

When it comes to money, the only thing most people can think of is to work hard. Robert Kiyosaki

Think before you invest, and don't forget to think after you've invested. F. Doyle

Most reliable way to double your money - fold it in half and put it in your wallet. Frank Hubbard

Money cannot buy one thing - poverty. Here you need to turn to the help of the stock exchange. Robert Orben

A businessman is a person who spends time to make money and then spends money to kill time. Evan Esar

Time and money are the heaviest burdens in life, so the unhappiest of mortals are those who have both in abundance. Samuel Johnson

People with means think that the most important thing in life is love; The poor know for sure that the main thing is money. Gerald Brenan

Ten pounds is a lot of money; Whoever has them starts to live with caution, and this means the end of happiness. George Bernard Shaw

Save the pence, and the pounds will save themselves - this proverb is as true for the formation of personality as for the accumulation of capital. George Bernard Shaw

Everything is bought except people's love. Prosper Merimee

Be thrifty and prepare for tomorrow. Aesop

Art and literature, like war, are based on money. Samuel Butler

Humanity loves money, no matter what it is made of. Mikhail Bulgakov

When you have a lot to invest, the day has hundreds of pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche

An idealist is someone who helps others get rich. Henry Ford

Money must be managed, not served. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Money is freedom forged in gold. Erich Maria Remarque

Money is the nerve of war. Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is easier to ask from the poor than from the rich. Anton Chekhov

When self-interest sounds in words, don’t believe it
Neither the flattery of a woman, nor the machinations of a man. Alisher Navoi

The plight of the moneylender is pitiful: with his income he paves his way to hell. Nasir Khusraw

You need to buy in proportion to the profit and loss. If you don’t want to go broke, don’t spend unearned income. Unsur Al-maali (Kay Kabus)

For smart people, money is a means; for fools, it is an end. Adrian Decourcel

It is believed that the love of money is the root of all ills. The same can be said about lack of money. Samuel Butler

We always have money on a whim; we skimp only on useful and necessary expenses. Honore de Balzac

Beware of minor expenses; a small leak will drown big ship. Benjamin Franklin

If you want to get rid of a guest who bothers you with his visits, lend him money. Benjamin Franklin

Generosity is more profitable than stinginess. Lion Feuchtwanger

Money is a common property. Everyone is allowed to take as much as he wants, provided he can. Wilhelm Schwebel

Creating a balanced budget is like defending your virtue: you need to learn to say no. Ronald Reagan

The budget never stays in balance. Gustave Flaubert

In the bad old days there were three easy ways to go broke: the quickest was horse racing, the sweetest was women, and the safest was farming. William Pitt Amherst

The pursuit of profit is the only way in which people can satisfy the needs of those whom they do not know at all. Friedrich Hayek

If you save a little every month, then after a year you will be surprised how little you have accumulated. Ernest Haskins

Everything was done simply in those old days. If someone had a lot of money, he would simply put it in a jar, bury it under the fence, say, “I have money in the jar,” and not worry about anything else. Lewis Carroll

First pay, and then faint. Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Economy does not consist in saving, but in selection. Edmund Burke

Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society. O.W.Holme

Money is like manure: collect it in one place and it will smell bad. Scatter them all over the land and they will yield a good harvest. Edgar Kaiser

Some lenders, not wanting to make the slightest concession to debtors, often lose all their capital. Aesop

: You can’t have too much money, but you can’t eat all the sausage and all the kebab.

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A person's sense of humor appeared before money. He learned to laugh when his cave boss slipped on a banana peel. The first money appeared approximately three thousand years BC. Imagine, thousands of prehistoric generations existed without any money at all! How did they get out? It is clear that you could pay for a stone axe, octopus fur or a trip to the cinema with a shell. How can you buy a car? To buy a car you need to give a bag of shells. But to bring a bag of shells, you already need to have a car. Vicious circle. Apparently this is why primitive people there were no cars.

I don't like money! I just love what they can buy!
Ilf and Petrov

If you save a little every month, then after a year you will be surprised how little you have accumulated.
Ernest Haskins

For money you can, of course, buy adorable dog, but no amount of money will make him wag his tail happily.
John Billings

I want to live like a poor person with money.
Pablo Picasso

Money cannot buy one thing - poverty. Here you need to turn to the help of the stock exchange.
Robert Orben

Saving is a way to spend money without pleasure.
Armand Salakru

With age, the desire to earn money turns into a desire to save.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky

A woman can make any billionaire man a millionaire.
Charlie Chaplin

If a problem can be solved for money, then it is not a problem, it is an expense.
Jewish wisdom

Lucky people live with money, unlucky people live without it, and scoundrels live for it.
Georges Elgozy

A person can live for a long time on the money he waits for.
William Faulkner

You need money even to get by without it.
Honore de Balzac

Anyone who wants to get rich in a day will be hanged within a year.
Leonardo da Vinci

If you don't have money, you think about money all the time. If you have money, you only think about money.
Paul Getty

The richest is the one whose joys require the least money.
Henry David Thoreau

We need to take money away from those who have it, and first of all, of course, from the poor. Yes, of course, the poor don’t have enough money, but there are so many poor themselves!
Alphonse Allais

Too many people spend their hard-earned money on things they don't need to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers

Money won't make you happier. I have 50 million now and I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Famous sayings that will teach you the right attitude towards finances.

Money is a great thing. They allow you to lead beautiful life, buy expensive things and sometimes make a person happy. The problem is that there are usually not enough of them, and they can only “buy” happiness up to a certain point.

Since money do not grow on trees and do not fall from the sky into purses and wallets, we are forced to budget. And this has its advantage: by taking control of your money, you take control of your life.

Here are 19 quotes that can inspire anyone to be more frugal.

1. “Never spend money you have not yet earned,” Thomas Jefferson.

2. “It’s good to have money and buy everything your heart desires. But from time to time it’s worth checking to see if you’ve lost something that you can’t buy,” George Lorimer.

3. “There is a huge difference between someone who has earned a lot of money and someone who is rich,” - Marlene Dietrich.

4. “You can’t chase after money“We need to meet them,” Jim Rohn.

5. “If we manage our wealth, then we are rich and free; if our wealth controls us, then we are none poorer,” - Edmund Burke.

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6. “The hardest thing to learn is that you should save money when you have it,” Joe Moore.

7. “Don’t tell me what your priorities are in life. Show me what you spend your money on and I'll tell you about it myself." - James Frick.

8. “If you want to be rich, think of saving as earning,” Benjamin Franklin.

9. “Many people think they don’t know how to earn money, when in fact they don’t know how to spend,” Frank Clark.

10. “Some people begin to think about money only when they come to an end, others do the same over time,” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

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11. “Money is only a means. They will take you wherever you want, but you must choose the direction of the path yourself,” Ayn Rand.

12. “Money is a good servant, but a bad master,” - Phineas Taylor Barnum.

13. “Control your finances, or lack of them will control you,” Dave Ramsey.

14. “What matters is not how much money you make, but how much money you have left, how it works for you, and how many generations you can provide with it,” - Robert Kiyosaki.

15. “The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters virtue, teaches self-sacrifice, cultivates a sense of order, develops thoughtfulness and broadens the horizons,” Thornton Munger.

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16. "U" wise man money should be in the head, not in the heart,” Jonathan Swift.

17. “The value of money is multiplied by the control you have over your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.” - Timothy Ferriss.

18. “The fastest way to double money“Fold them in half and put them in your pocket,” Will Rogers.

19. “Money guarantees that in the future we will be able to buy whatever we want. Even if we do not need anything now, they provide the opportunity to satisfy a new desire when it arises,” Aristotle.