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Some of the coolest quotes about finances:

 

  • God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. ~ John D. Rockefeller 

 

  • Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise. ~ Abraham Lincoln 

 

  • Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. ~ Leo Rosten 

 

  • The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard 

 

  • Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets. ~ Jerry Seinfeld 

 

  • The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. ~ IRS auditor

 

  • After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

 

  • The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine

 

  • I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

 

  • A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ~Bob Hope

 

  • Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben

 

  • Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. ~Dan Millman

 

  • My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~Abraham Lincoln

 

  • If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson

 

  • A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder

 

  • It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx

 

  • We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

 

  • If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

 

  • Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

 

  • Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ~Zig Ziglar

 

  • People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson

 

  • Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857

 

  • 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

 

  • A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain

 

  • Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852

 

  • Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest

 

  • You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. ~Thomas Wolfe