Quotes on Money and Wealth
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

The No. 1 rule is to know the difference between an asset and a liability. The rich focus on their asset columns while everyone else focuses on their income statements. The more money that goes into my asset column, the more my asset column grows. The more my assets grow, the more my cash flow grows. And as long as I keep my expenses less than the cash flow from these assets, I will grow richer, with more and more income from sources other than my physical labor.

Robert T. Kiyosaki (adapted)

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Swift

Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Rita Davenport

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Fred Adler

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Jim Rohn

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''

John Mortimer

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Unknown

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

Charles Caleb Colton

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Artemus Ward

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Sophie Tucker

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Gottfried Reinhardt

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

George S. Clason

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Plato

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Laurence J. Peter

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first. The poor and middle class often buy luxury items such as big houses, diamonds, furs, jewelry or boats because they want to look rich. They look rich, but in reality they just get deeper in debt on credit. The old money people, the long-term rich, built their asset column first. Then, the income generated from the asset column bought their luxuries. The poor and middle class buy luxuries with their own sweat, blood, and children's inheritance.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Vic Oliver

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Oscar Wilde

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Humphrey Bogart

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Decimus Junius Juvenalis

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Sir Richard Burton

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Aesop

The money you make will only serve you as well as you serve others.

Duane Alan Hahn

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

When I want a bigger house, I first buy assets that will generate the cash flow to pay for the house.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

God from Conversations with God (Book 3) through Neale Donald Walsch

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Seneca

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necker

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