Quotes on Getting Money

Wisdom from the past about making money...

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith

"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations." - Adam Smith

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money." - Lord Acton

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality." -Henry Ward Beecher

"In all labor, there is profit. But idle chatter leads only to poverty." -Proverbs 14:23

"The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty." -Proverbs 21:5

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford

"He is rich or poor, according to what he is, not according to what he has." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." -Benjamin Franklin

"A penny saved is a penny earned." - Benjamin Franklin

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have." -Will Rogers

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -Mark Twain

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." -Edmund Burke

"It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." -Teddy Roosevelt

"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." -Benjamin Franklin

"Only a fool says money is unimportant. Let him try to live without it." - Author unknown