Here are 20 quotes from various well-known individuals which offers a range of perspectives on money and its role in our lives.
„When I had money everyone called me brother.” – Polish Proverb
„Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
„The lack of money is the root of all evil.” – Mark Twain
„Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand
„A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift
„It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” – Henry Ford
„The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” – Proverb
„The lack of money is no obstacle. The lack of an idea is an obstacle.” – Ken Hakuta
„Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment, it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” – Aristotle
„Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
„Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” – Charles Dickens
„Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one.” – Jacque Fresco
„The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” – Frank McKinney Hubbard
„I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” – Pablo Picasso
„Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
„Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
„The more you learn, the more you earn.” – Warren Buffett
„Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale
„Money is a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand
„The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” – Bernard Meltzer
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