15 of the Most Famous Quotes About Money
- “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor” – Euripides
- “I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design” – Josh Billings
- “Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay” – Charles Dickens
- “Bob has a saying, ‘Putting money in the bank’ … When we train every day, sometimes there are workouts you don’t like, don’t want to do. Bob says you’re putting money in the bank. I guess I put a lot of money in the bank over the last four years, and we withdrew pretty much every penny in the bank. After Bob and I both grab a little break, it’ll be time to start depositing.” – Michael Phelps
- “Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Poverty consists in feeling poor” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it” – Victor Hugo
- “Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity” – Samuel Johnson
- “Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor” – Euripides
- “Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing” – Doris Lessing
- “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.” – Napoleon Hill
- “If you would know the value of money try to borrow some” – Benjamin Franklin
- “What we need are not only a few simple step to get us on the right track but also the ability to STAY on that track. Before you think to yourself, ‘I need more money,’ think about making the most of what you already have.” -Ben Leonard
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