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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
Unknown

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
Unknown

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
James Montgomery Bailey

Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
Stephen T. Steve

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.
Unknown

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
Unknown

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
Fran Lebowitz

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.
Honoré de Balzac

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

Change is good, but dollars are better.
Unknown

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

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

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tzu

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

I'd rather be rich than stupid.
Unknown

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Bill Anderson

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
A. Cygni

Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
Unknown

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

Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Unknown

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Henrik Ibsen

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
Billy Rose

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Nero Wolfe

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw

Some of the worst torments imaginable accompany wealth. And yet many a poor man is eager for preferment and dreams of somehow "improving" his estate. Where money and property are concerned, none but vagrants are wise.
Christopher Spranger

The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
Unknown

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
Unknown

The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.
Unknown

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Unknown

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Stephen Wright

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